cinema

Directing 

   A good director in a picture-frame theatre is also a good director in theatre in the round.The medium does not present any insurmountable problem; any director with experience and common sense can adjust to a different type of staging, and if he has imagination (which he should have in any kind of theatre), he can direct plays as well in a theatre -in- the-round.

     because I believe this, many of things I am going to say about directing in this chapter apply to any type of stage and only a few refer exclusively to theatre- in-the-round.I have fond in going from one medium to the other -and I have often to this -that the basic principles and problems are the same: the approach to the play, the relationship to the actors and even the actual staging."Treat the stage as a circle" wrote Arthur Hopkins in reference point, "not as a parallelogram. A well-staged play will look as  convincing from the backstage wall as from the orchestra pit."

     In addition to his own imagination, which he needs in any medium, the director must make use of the audience's imagination when he is working in theatre-in- the-round.The more the relies on the audience's capacity to imagine, the truer his results are likely to be.He must never be afraid that the audience will fail to respond when he invites them to use their intelligence. Everybody has imagination; it is up to the director to stimulate it.

Rev: pannala sumedha
A/11 /687