What or Whom Do You Consider to Be Your Greatest Influence in Theatre?
Question by Vatican Lokey: What or whom do you consider to be your greatest influence in theatre?
Jean Kerr once said: Young people wishing to become actors have an addiction only slightly less dangerous then heroin.
Hello out there all you drama junkies!
If you work in the theatre in any capacity, what or whom influences you the most in your theatrical life? Actors, what event caused you to choose this path? Singers, whose performances stole your soul away to the theatre? Dancers, how many of you remember the first moment you realized you were a dancer?
Technicians, what keeps you coming back for more? Costume designers-Edith or Adrian? Set designers, when did you decide to make everything work? Lights and Sound, who let you in on the secret? Directors, which show convinced you that you should be in charge? Audiences, what performances left you feeling transcendent and spent?
Best answer:
Answer by darkmoon_reddawn_folkdomination
Bertold Brecht, his concept of epic theatre.
Answer by survivor
I was hooked at the age of five when I was taken to a pantomime and during the performance some of us were invited up onto stage to join hands and sing a little song. (although I was more interested i n peering over my shoulder to see where the fairies had gone) Intoxicating stuff for a five-year-old! And I’ve been showing off ever since! Acting is my passion. As a member of an audience “West Side Story”( coming just after a major trauma in my life) was the most invigorating.