If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.
We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.
I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
