All they have to work with are actors, text and a bit of live music".
For almost forty-five years, Wilson has been producing singular theatrical events, in which pristine, classical details coexist with an overspilling Wagnerian romanticism and strangeness, and actors, texts, light, sound, and décor merge into a visually startling, implicitly political whole.
The work that Mendes has produced is not grand and conceptual, but draws its impact from his ability to match actor and text.
But the Donmar's minimalist design aesthetic, which trains the audience's focus on actor and text, where it properly belongs, can also throw weaknesses in stark relief.
As he goes on, Oliver slowly makes his audience understand that theatre, once stripped of its standard smoke and mirrors, is a storytelling medium, wonderfully reducible to two or three essentials: actor and text and that unidentifiable something which visionaries such as Artaud call magic.
One of Maxwell's salient points as a theatre maker is what you have once you reduce the stage to actors and text.
He was also a lifelong director of his own and other people's plays: a task to which he brought absolute clarity of vision and a total respect for actors and text.
To that end, he was fortunate to be matched in his daring by his director, Konstantin Stanislavsky, who worked with actors and text in a way that was intended to make theatre an organic, realistic whole — no longer a place for "angels".
As a producer and director, Howard's job is to match actors to texts, guide their performances, and work the engineering booth in the studio.
Oliveira was a hero of the French cinephile world and occasionally made movies with French actors and texts, but it was in 2001, with "I'm Going Home," that he entered the French cinema — or vice versa.
