Yesterday's candidate was interesting. My feelings about him are mixed. I'm not sure I agreed with him philosophically on the issue of stage directions. I very much enjoy a play that has thick, rich, vivid descriptions of characters, elaborating on their style of dress, their manner, and a number of other facets of the character which the playwright may not want to just give away through dialog. Reading bits like these in the middle of a play is like a breath of prose amidst the theatrical dialog.
While I enjoyed the class as a general theatre workshop, I'm not sure how much I enjoyed it as a writing workshop. Maybe if he had given more of an idea as to how he would apply the stuff that we did. I enjoyed the dialog/subtext exercise, although I felt like we were cut off right as we were about to really break through somewhere (since we hadn't fully figured out if my character was a sweet innocent guy or a guy pretending to be sweet and innocent who was actually going to keep Bess in a well in the basement). But, time constraints are what they are.
All in all, I'd say this is a candidate I could see myself working with next year, but I'm not sure if he was my favorite thus far.
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