Natalia Kaliada of Belarus Free Theatre pointed up the fact that in her country artists fear speaking up for risk of losing their lives, while in the UK artists fear speaking up for risk of losing their funding.
As Jon Spooner from Unlimited Theatre pointed out to him at the time, no actor begins their career at the National; for most it would rightly be considered the pinnacle.
He is also firm in his belief that this sort of risk-taking, form-pushing work should be the purpose of fringe theatre, pointing out that a play such as this one would never be produced in the West End.
(The film's poker face is one of the things that lends it so readily to spoofing – see Hot Fuzz, or the Los Angeles cult theatre hit Point Break Live!) Long before The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow had already established herself here and in her earlier work as a master of genres once deemed exclusively male.
As Inna Solovyova, a renowned theatre historian, points out, the power of Russian theatre before, during and after the Soviet era came, in fact, from its ability to complement rather than to copy life and to compensate for its brutality by creating a parallel reality.
They don't want you to be the smart ass in the movie theatre who points out the reasons why a certain explosion scene that takes place in space is completely illogical.
Still others have made theatres focal points of their urban planning.
While at Katherine Gibbs, she developed a close friendship with stage actress, Leora Dana, attending such theatre productions as Point of No Return at the Alvin Theatre staring her and Henry Fonda.
Although Offenbach's ambition was to compose for the stage, he could not gain an entrée to Parisian theatre at this point in his career; with Flotow's help, he built a reputation composing for and playing in the fashionable salons of Paris.
