20092 - Theatre, directing and human relations

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

Because the theater is a difficulty in itself, it teachers you endurance and effectiveness in difficult periods.
Because the theater is direction, you see prior, what will happen afterwards, and it teachers you strategy.
Because the theater is many lives for one man, you discover the life of the people.
Because the theater does not hide the lies, it tells you the truth.
It does not deal with communication, but only with consultation.
It’s not regarding a total, or a selection of roles, but teamwork of the performance group, and when you’re dealing with people, then they reveal to you the value of humanity.
Shakespeare reminds you, that you can do a lot with hatred, but much more with love.
Beckett emphasizes on the greatness of a friendship.
Camus explains the freedom of atopy.
Rostand indicates to you the path of truth.
In actual fact, at the theater you hear Humanity itself talking to you, since Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides opened their mouth.
And rather than getting lost in the everydayness of the society of the spectacle, you can find yourself within the humane performance that begins from the rehearsals, in order to prepare you for the others, and in turn to contribute to the public what you’ve recieved from the directing.
In order for you to become the pleasure and joy of others.
So that you can show them, how is the world when you love the others.
And if you know all these, Time is on your side, when you hear the call time bell sound three times.