All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts. Always, there has been a certain fascination in relating the real world with the theatrical world in defining life in terms of art or art in terms of life. The creation of the playwrights world begins with an empty stage. This stage represents the artists blank canvas, the musicians instrument before a single note is played. It was the bare stage that caught pirandellos imagination and became the catalyst for six characters in search of an author. He himself wrote that he wanted an audience to feel they had just happened to enter an auditorium and stumbled on to a rehearsal. They see unplanned events take place and develop accidentally into a play performance. At this given time in this given space, identities, actions, meanings evolve between the characters and the actors, between the real and the imaginary, between life and art. And th
Begins with an empty stage. This stage represents the artists blank canvas, the musicians instrument before a single note is played. It was the bare stage that caught pirandellos imagination and became the catalyst for six characters in search of an author. He himself wrote that he wanted an audience to feel they had just happened to enter an auditorium and stumbled on to a rehearsal. They see unplanned events take place and develop accidentally into a play performance. At this given time in this given space, identities, actions, meanings evolve between the characters and the actors, between the real and the imaginary, between life and art. And therein lay the challenge for pirandello, for all playwrights who seek to create a specific atmosphere in which an audience participates in the illusion of reality. Our guest is both a playwright and performer, who, through his work, has created magical moments of artistic reality, mr. Ossie davis. Only if the characters about which hes trying t
Two actors who didn’t know each other find unique and honest ways of creating a comedic double-act in the Ossie Davis revival at the Music Box Theatre.