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D is for director's theatre by Michael Billington

Actors and aspiring auteurs should call a truce " theatre works best when they work togetherDirector's theatre? "The very phrase in English," critic Kenneth Tynan once wrote, "has a pejorative ring." But that was back in the mid-1950s. Since then the landscape has changed; today we are confronted by a whole generation of powerful directors, many of whom aspire to the condition of auteurs: figures like Deborah Warner,…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM on January 3, 2012

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