The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.
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It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
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If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.
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When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.
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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
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Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
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After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
