Question:“On classics of the stage”
On classics of the stage
The stage dies like the first time and lives like the first time every night. A recording is a shadow. The breathing in the front row is the real thing.
Three descend. Two of them sing and one of them speaks. Enter through song first, then go to the spoken word.
- Les Misérables (Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil)A man who stole a loaf of bread is hunted for the rest of his life, singing.
- The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber)The moment the chandelier falls proves what a stage can do.
- Oedipus Rex, SophoclesA man who fled the words of Delphi and walked straight into them.
In the theater of Dionysus, one day held three tragedies and one satyr play.