Linda Li’s top 10 take away and 2 confusions about Thinking Like A Director

Linda Li’s TOP 10 Take Away:

1. “...a director’s proficiency in certain skills, such as staging and composition, translates into great productions. But as with every art, technique alone is hardly sufficient. To be successful, a director must be creative, inventive, intuitive, and above all passionate.”

2. “...Interpretation, it is now recognized as central to the director’s work, informing every aspect of preparation and production.”

3. “...yet theater has no choice but to be contemporary. Because audience perception changes with time, interpreting a play necessarily...”

4. “ An important goal of my own directing is to discover points of communion between a play and its particular audience in ways that delight and surprise.”

5. “For a director, no reading of a play is as important as the first, because the experience will most closely mirror that of the average audience.”

6. “There are two basic ways in which research can be valueable. It can illuminate the action, and it can guide the director in formulating the world of the play and, ultimately, the production approach.”

7. “ Playwrights often provide clues for detecting where a new beat begins.”

8. “ The Director who ignores the emotional life of each character, focusing entirely on gesture and movement, risks diminishing the imagination of virtually any play, regardless of its style. 

9. “ Determining a character’s action can be done only while simultaneously considering the given circumstances, which are often the catalysts that propel the character into action. 

10. One way to test an action is to measure it against the play’s formal properties, its overall structure.

Confusion One: How can a director often get the audience on the same page?

Confusion Two: How can I give clues and hints to the audience without confuse them and give them too much information. 


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