Some Vogel gems from a long-ago conversation b/t Paula and Mary Louise Parker: I believe that the things we don’t express will kill us. Kill us as a country, kill us as people. It’s my duty as a teacher to take the student and turn them into a colleague. Theater needs disaster. What we’re actually hoping for is that we’re setting up a scenario in which the lines won’t be said, the lighting cues will miss… When I’m teaching, or watching plays in any capacity, on a panel or as a judge, I always invoke what I call the Buchner Principle. Woyzeck and Danton’s Death were written by this 24-year-old medical student who died in the seventeenth century, and it took 125 years before they discovered the manuscript in some attic. Woyzeck is now considered one of the great classics. So how do we know that any 24-year-old isn’t another Buchner, and what’s happened is that our perception is flawed? That they’re ahead of us, ahead of our times, and we can’t see it.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:49:13 +0000
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