Konstantine Stanislavski Love art in yourself and not yourself in art.
Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
By P.C. Clark~
So, here I am. I’ve decided to get up off my lovely leather couch, leaving my home-theatre- blue- ray-surround-sound-ultimate-movie-theatre-experience behind. I’ve decided I need to leave my comfortable home and venture out into the “actual” world and risk bumping into “actual” people and see an “actual” theatre piece.
I’ve done my research. [...]
by P.C.Clarke
This ‘I have reservations’ column was originally conceived as a place for me, a non-actor, non-theatre member, average Joe-Theatre-goer (and all around over-user of dashes) to provide an audience point of view with respect to the actual experience of attending small theatre in Los Angeles. I do not attempt to review the [...]
By P.C. Clarke
Speaking from the point of view of the audience it is sometimes hard to understand how a particular play ever sees life on stage. Some shows leave you shaking your head in wonder that an artistic director, an artistic committee, a producer, a director and fifteen actors ever saw merit in the piece [...]
By P. C. Clarke
Dear Theatre Audiences,
Just a short note to you from me, the person sitting in front of you, beside you or craning my head around behind your big hair and hat.
You, as a member of this audience, have certain responsibilities to me, your fellow audience member, and to the hard working actors up [...]
By P. C. Clarke
This is the first of several articles I will write on the audience experience at small theatres. It is only my opinion, but it is based on years of attending performances at various small theatre venues in different cities, including Los Angeles.
Small theatres are, by and large, run By actors and For [...]
