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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
... Dionysus, with the emotional din and clash of his music and the unrestrained freedom and passion of his worship, is often presented in direct contrast to Apollo, god of the lyre's disciplined melody, reason, and self-control. These two antithetical forces of the irrational (Dionysian) and rational (Apollonian) are dominant archetypal motifs inherent in human nature, and they have attained a particular importance and influence because of Friedrich Nietzche's study of drama entitled The Birth of Tragedy. MythsPlease, pray to both...
Old Business
from the past:The only way not to repeate myself is to have hyper-links!
Repetition is the way of learning or... becoming rediculous -- in the later, you do not know that you repeat yourself. So, I want to repeat -- for you and as usual for myself: keep reading. Do you have your reading list, kid? Yes, the list of books you MUST read before you die... Make one. Before you die. Make several of them. Unofortunately, I do not have have one on "theory" for you -- you have to collect the names and titles out of the texts.
Sad poll ("what do you read on my webpages"): almost 1/3 of the visitors -- first time! Welcome, welcome, but you, first-times, are not the ones I write for. I, personally, write, because I read what I wrote. I do not believe in one-night-stand; the real books are those you can read many times. If not, it's not that good. So, read (take notes) -- and come back.... Or even better, go away and do something with your life that you too can join the Plato Academy later.
... 2003: Folks, I am doing serious rethinking on the nature of web (thoughts are @ web.vtheatre.net); for too long I was focusing of the "publishing" attributes, time to explore "broadcasting" qualities of the Web. You will see more features of the webtheatre, when web as medium becomes not only a tool (or form), but a message itself. Think of yourself not as a reader (never mind, a surfer), but as a spectator (read The Book of Spectator).Consider this page as "web-show" -- what would you expect?
Ah! Dramatic structure!
Action, characters and the rest of the Spectacle.
It's coming...
Film is coming to the web. Read my film pages, if you want to know how the Internet will look like ten years from now.
Of course, I try to see the future from the aestjetics level, theory. Practical applications of the webcast I gave up in 2000 (see shows.vtheatre.net)
Now image the "backstage" of this very page. Imagine the pre and post-production phazes. Imagine how to "run" this segment of the web-show. Image the maintainence of the web-internet facilities. To help your imagination read files in web.vtheatre.net or filmplus.org/web...
Now think about "web-writing" -- yes, yes, about how this hyper-drama (web-narrative) looks like. I bet you do not know what I am talking about. Me too. Because this new way of thinking-seeing is not here yet. Go to PLAY directories; my new drama (in-progress) is for web-theatre (if you can read Russian).
Wait a minute! Why in Russian, Anatoly?
Because it's about me, about Russian Anatoly... The commentaries (not texts) are in English.
Now -- imagine....
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Last Scene
No, I don't have it yet, the last scene. I know that it's something nice, but I'm sad to departure from the guys of the Plato Academy. But the laws of dramatic composition demand it."Happy is the one who, blessed with the knowledge of the divine mysteries, leads a life of ritual purity and joins the holy group of revelers heart and soul as they honor their god Bacchus in the mountains with holy ceremonies of purification."
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ModiglianiAbout the girls (art pix on my pages). I hope that by now you understand my fear to write something in the "great" tradition of the Socialist Realism (by accident) -- and I have to keep myself of balance (humor). Besides, I believe that any good theory ends in life...
Oedipus (left), the web directory, was to serve all courses I teach (acting, directing, drama). But ...
I directed it in 2005 and the show was full of contemporary references (the reason for staging this play), i.e. existential and postmodernist thoughts. The faces you see on my pages (philosophers) are important for directing (new comes only from and through tradition). Art (especially theatre) is an intellectual discourse in very practical terms. Yes, Oedipus is about us, about me -- how else?
.... "Educational theatre"? Good theatre is always educational. Anatoly-Brecht.
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PS. Of course, I still to come back to this and other theory pageds to edit or simply write and rewrite them... See you later.
Everybody! Back! Come back!
All! On stage, please!
Yes, all, the whole Academy!
No, no books! No prop! The show is over, this is a curtain call!
Light! Give me everything you have!
Who is this guy? What? What is he doing here? I don't know him! No, not every phisopher, sir, only the members... Yes, you can complain. Get him off stage! I don't care! So what that you are Spinosa!? Did I quote you? No, only people with the lines! I know about your contributions to the history of philosophy! Out! I am directing it!
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How do philosophers relate to directing? Aristotle (Poetics) Plato (the concept of Ideas) Hegel -- Dialectics. Kierkeggard -- Existentialism Perhaps, in the Fall 2006, when I teach THR413 Playscript Analysis, I can extend philosophy pages Also, to link "philosophy" to shows (directory)! ....
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Now, go! The curtain!
It went up, slow, without any music. There was silence. Not a sound. No applause... the house was dark.
And empty.
Maybe it wasn't a comedy after all...
Stay away from drama (melodrama), direct only tragedy and comedy. Especially, when direct "drama" (Pinter'06).
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2006
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