Chapter 6 drama

I'm going to be writing plays this winter, and I'm hoping to get away from home and write plays for reading, not for acting.The effect emerges from the splendor of the text, which does not give anything to it, but instead emerges from its unique appearance, from depth, from flesh and blood.Today, that's all I think about.And I often think so.In the back of my mind, that's what I think about drama.However, since plays are not meant to be read at all, I reconsider plays in general, and I don't want to fuss about them.Since I had the experience of performing at the Lumpian Theater in January 1985, I am still thinking about all the things I am talking about here-thoroughly and definitely thinking about it.

An actor reading a book aloud, like "Blue Eyes and Black Hair", just read, keep still, nothing else, just use voice to get the text out of the book, not to make people believe that the body is in pain Gestures are made in the middle, because once the words are spoken, the whole drama is contained in them, and there is no need to move the body.I have never seen words in a play equal in power to those uttered by a priest in Mass.Around the Pope, a peculiar language is spoken or sung, entirely pronouncing, unaccented intonation, nothing at all, flat but not indifferent, neither dramatic nor operatic style.According to the narration of the Passion in St. John or St. Matthew, and a certain part in Stravinsky and the Symphony of Psalms, we find that each time such voices are created as if for the first time. It is the same as hearing, the sound from the voice part until it becomes the echo of the words, that is, all the sounds of the words are never heard in daily life.I just believe this is the case.In Grubel's Berenice, the representation is almost static.I only regret the act of provoking emotion, which is separated from the words.Berenice's wailing is best done vocally by an actress such as Ludmilla Micchael, who certainly has the right to do so.Why lie about it?Berenice and Titus, they should be the narrators, Racine the director, the theater hall, that's where humanity is.Why not perform in a salon, in a small living room?I say this here, and it doesn't matter what people think of me.Just provide a drawing room for someone to read Berenice, and you'll be fine.In Savannah Bay,4 the two young lovers are having a conversation in what we call "paraphrasing," when the characters say what I have here described as a development of the situation.In The Hague, something strange happened that two of my favorite actresses failed to do.They kept the whole drama within their vision, their eyes on the hall, and while they were telling the story of the two lovers, they represented at the same time what happened in the theater.

① "Blue Eyes and Black Hair" is a novel published by the author in 1986. ② Stravinsky (1882-1971), French composer of Russian descent. ③ "Berenice" (1670), a tragedy made by Racine.Berenice and Titus are the tragic heroes. ④The script published by the author in 1983. The Comédie Française has not staged a play written by a woman since 1900, at the National People's Theater in Villars, at the Odéon, at Villeurbanne, at the Schawbuhne in Berlin, at the Streller to the Teatro di Milano A play by a woman writer or a woman director.Later, Sarot and I, we began to ask the Ballore Theater Company to perform our productions.At this time George Sand was playing in some theaters in Paris.This went on for seventy, eighty, ninety years.In Paris, and perhaps in the whole of Europe, plays written by women are not seen at all.This situation is what I found, not someone told me.This is, after all, the reality that exists all around us.Then one day we received a letter from Jean-Louis Barrol asking if I would like to adapt a novel entitled "Days and Nights in the Woods" into a play.I accepted.The adaptation was reviewed and rejected.The script waited until 1965 to be staged.achieved great success.But none of the critics suggested that it was the first play written by a woman to be performed on the French stage in a century.

①Jean-Louis Barol, a famous contemporary French actor and director, once participated in the French Comedy Theater, and later formed the Barol Troupe with the famous actress Madeleine Lenoir (his wife). ② "Days and Nights in the Forest", a novel published by the author in 1954.