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Posted: 1/3/10 at 7:12pm
Who are your favorite contemporary directors, and why?
My picks...I could list a bunch more, but I'll start with two:
Bartlett Sher - He's proved himself in straight plays (Awake and Sing!, Joe Turner) and musicals (South Pacific, Light in the Piazza). He knows how to work on a thrust stage, and use the configuration to his advantage by manipulating the extra space it enables him to use to give us moments of expanse and moments of intimacy.
Matthew Warchus - Presenting God of Carnage and the Norman Conquests in one season, he has proved himself a master of realism and the ensemble cast. It would be interesting to see his take on something else, but as long as the productions he continues to bring us are so gripping, I don't really care what they are.
Your turn! I stuck with people who have directed on Broadway, but you can choose anyone.
My picks...I could list a bunch more, but I'll start with two:
Bartlett Sher - He's proved himself in straight plays (Awake and Sing!, Joe Turner) and musicals (South Pacific, Light in the Piazza). He knows how to work on a thrust stage, and use the configuration to his advantage by manipulating the extra space it enables him to use to give us moments of expanse and moments of intimacy.
Matthew Warchus - Presenting God of Carnage and the Norman Conquests in one season, he has proved himself a master of realism and the ensemble cast. It would be interesting to see his take on something else, but as long as the productions he continues to bring us are so gripping, I don't really care what they are.
Your turn! I stuck with people who have directed on Broadway, but you can choose anyone.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
