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This longing to attain a self conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. And in the merging, he desires neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not africanize america, for america has too much to teach the world and africa. He would not bleach his negro soul in the flood of white americanism, for he knows that negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a negro and an american without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows and without having the door of opportunity closed roughly in his face. So. No matter the smile, no matter the grin, no matter the bow, there is no safety. No hiding place. No matter what mask we wear, we blacks are damned if we do and damned if we dont. As Ralph Ellison says in the beginning of his novel, invisible man, we black americans have no guarantee that we exist at all. I am an invisible man. No, im not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe nor am i one
When his first play was chosen for competition, he was in his early 20s and he won first prize. His last play was written when he was 90 years old. Sophocles was an artist of the noblest genius, whose art transformed the severe truth of life into theater reality while tempering it with the beauty of poetry. Standing at the very apex of the golden age of greece, he was recognized by his contemporaries as one of the glories of that epic. From aristotles discourse on tragic drama, from the existing plays themselves and from the ruins of the many theaters scattered throughout greece, the Aegean Islands and asia minor, scholars have developed various theories about the origin of drama. Most agree, however, that drama began as a celebration of spring, a ceremonial right of sacrifice to dionysus, the god of vegetation, fertility and wine. On these joyful communal occasions, a chorus of men, dressed in goat skins, danced and sang songs, leading a procession through the city streets to a spot o
Anton chehkov, a physician who wrote short stories and plays, which depicted people as neither heroic nor foolish. Indeed, chehkovs plays seemed plotless to viewers expecting a conventional, single action. Instead, emphasis is on people and atmosphere in many small stories. In his plays as in real life, theres not necessarily one outstanding moment of supreme significance, nothing compared, for instance, to the moment when the traditional hero learns some overwhelming truth about the universe. Some of chehkovs people achieve understanding, others remain trapped in self delusion. There are important events, but they take place offstage. There are extramarital affairs, a fatal duel, a devastating fire. The sensational is avoided in favor of personal reflection. People rarely confront each other or respond directly. In chehkov, the people and their individual reactions to life are most important as in the Three Sisters, which represents a break with the more artificial plays of the time.
It is then fascinating to be invited backstage to observe the way actors and director work to develop a scene. These rehearsals of strinbergs miss julie took place over a fiveday period in a london rehearsal hall. The aim was to find ways the text, written in 1888, could be made to live for a contemporary audience. The preproduction work includes discussion of motivation, acting technique, line readings, stage business and personal experiences of the actors themselves. I, myself, as an actor, have often found that the rehearsal period is almost the most interesting part of acting, the most creative part. It is there that you use your instruments, both external and internal. The external instruments, of course, are your voice with which you speak the words, and your body, your appearance with which you enter, sit down, get up, walk to the window, turn around and exit. Thats all an actor has, just his voice and his body. But inside, of course, he has his own temperament, his own characte