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Arnold Aronson blames it all on the introduction of the chair to the stage. Once you put a chair on the stage, we sit down and have a chat. You know, “Mrs. Tesman, let’s have a little chat.”

Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl

Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen

Robert McKee

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The play-driven pleasures associated with exploratory body movements, rhythmic early speech (moving vocal cords), locomotor and rotational activity are done for their own sake; they are pleasurable and intrinsically playful. Yet they also help sculpt the brain.

Stuart Brown M.D., Christopher Vaughan • Play

‘proscenium arch’

John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

In those circumstances and many others, you’ll do better if you follow three essential rules of improvisational theater: (1) Hear offers. (2) Say “Yes and.” (3) Make your partner look good.

Daniel H Pink • To Sell Is Human

So visual dharma is based on having these three foundations: a nonindividualistic sense of humor, a sense of all-pervasive space, and an appreciation of the play of phenomena.

Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique: A Workbook with Video for Directors, Teachers and Actors (Theatre Arts Workbooks)

Mark Monday