Britain's Sir Peter Hall is considered by many the most important
director in his generation. As the artistic director of the Royal
Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Old Vic, he has
directed the greatest actors of our time in numerous seminal
interpretations of Shakespeare and the Classics.
In his latest work, Sir Peter Hall ranges over the extraordinary
history of world drama to find the common experiences that are able
to create the theatrical form. This series of 4 lectures were
delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge as part of the famed
Clark lectures which began in the nineteenth century.
The argument of the lectures is that theatre is only created when
emotions are contained by a form. That very form paradoxically
gives freedom of expression. Thus the Greek mask enables the actor
to express hysteria. The mask, whether it may be the actual
physical mask on the face, or the form of the drama itself, makes
expression possible. Shakespeare's verse is his mask. Mozart's
sonata is his. And Beckett and Pinter (by the metaphors of their
plays) have brought poetry back to the theatre. Without form there
can be no freedom.
Peter Hall is currently in Denver, Colorado, in rehearsals for the
world premiere production of "Tantalus," a 15 hour, 10 play cycle
based on Greek tragedy to open at the Denver Center Theatre in
October 2000.
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