BBCNEWS This Cultural Life June 4, 2024 09:52:00
I call it the trapeze factor. you go to the circus, you're in that space, she's in that space, on the trapeze. if she falls off that trapeze and breaks her neck, she's doing it in your space. i always say that in films, in movies, i aspire to the condition of theatre, in other words to the trapeze... to the tradition of trapeze, so that although the audience knows objectively that they're watching something on a two—dimensional screen, you are drawn into it, so that you really have that sense of reality. and i want my plays in the theatre to aspire to the condition of cinema, in the sense th...