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re: Sam Mendes Rules for Directors

Posted by:	Michael_Portantiere 11:46 pm EDT 03/12/14
In reply to:	re: Sam Mendes Rules for Directors - ryhog 11:55 am EDT 03/12/14

Maybe that's what he meant, but if so, I think one can regard a work as a masterpiece without handling it "reverently" as if it were a museum piece. And I don't think it's right to go to the other extreme and offer a radical staging of a show just for the sake of being "different." By the way, I hated what Mendes did to CABARET the last time, just in case I haven't already mentioned that...

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re: Sam Mendes Rules for Directors

Posted by:	Chromolume 11:54 pm EDT 03/12/14
In reply to:	re: Sam Mendes Rules for Directors - Michael_Portantiere 11:46 pm EDT 03/12/14

I think one can* regard a work as a masterpiece without handling it "reverently" as if it were a museum piece.* Yes, but he may be simply offering that advice to the many directors who can't. ;-) And I don't think it's right to go to the other extreme and offer a radical staging of a show just for the sake of being "different." Absolutely agreed. ;-)

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