Theatrical Review of
“THE WOMAN IN BLACK”

 A play by Stephen Mallatratt
 Based on the novel by Susan Hill

 Whitefire Theatre, Sherman Oaks, California
 Director Gabrieal Griego
 Premiere April 22, 2009 (more…)

Why do people go to the theatre or the movies? Certainly, they want to enjoy the experience. But what experience? Just seeing the show? I believe there is something more to it. It is called collective emotion. (more…)

If you are a kid and you want to call yourself a musician, you must play your instrument every day for hours and hours. To be singled out as a talented young writer, you must learn the grammar well and read a lot of books. People might call you a born ballet dancer only if you have spent months in training the basic positions – one through six. And even though every child can draw, to attract the attention of others you should have worked hard on your shapes and colors… (more…)

“Human life is so subtle, so complex and multifaceted, that it needs an incomparably large number of new, still undiscovered ‘isms’ to express it fully.”

Konstantin Stanislavski

After working in theatre for more than 20 years I find myself compelled to acknowledge, that, no matter what great minds I have encountered on different stages of my career, I am a follower of Stanislavski. Why did it take me so long to discover this? It has been a difficult relationship, full of doubts and contradictions, swinging from blind repetition of his postulates to fierce rejection of his “old-fashioned” attachment to realism. (more…)