Text on stage
Text does strange things on the stage. For a trained actor, a bit of Chekhov can inaugurate an entire style of performance, with certain assumptions about what's real, what kind of feeling is most powerful, how to get to that feeling. After turning away from text, towards gesture, task, state, other ways of articulating presence, we've been returning to our theatrical training to try to see what happens when a fiction is established on a stage. We've been trying to