(1) The solution to directors trying to copywright their interpretations of texts is for everyone to have less control over how work is interpreted, not for directors to have a copywright interest.
(2) The highest goal of art is not the realization and fulfillment of authorial intent.
(3) Collaboration is a skill that must be developed over time. As is creativity.
(4) The director is not omnipotent in the rehearsal process. There is a difference between leadership and dictatorship.
(5) Genre is a useful tool, not a series of rules. So is style.
(6) Intellectual property and copywright law is out of control and hindering creativity
(7) The director's primary job is to create an environment in which the group can be collectively creative.
(8) Being talented is not an excuse for behaving badly. Someone's talent is not an excuse to indulge their poor behavior.
(9) There is nothing wrong with the audience enjoying themselves. There is nothing wrong with art being fun.
(10) The insistance that individual works of theater be "important" directly coincides with the decline of theater's importance as an art form.
(11) Originality is an overrated virtue. Creativity is an underrated one.
(12) Whether or not a piece of art "works" is purely subjective.
(13) Theater's temporality is its greatest tragedy, but can also be its greatest asset.
How do you define the difference between originality and creativity?
Posted by: dan | October 10, 2006 at 09:47 AM