ARTISTIC DIRECTOR'S NOTES

In this, the third year of The Directors' Workshop, I am impressed with the supreme pleasures of being a director. It is the window to a deep and creative human interaction - that between the director and actor, and between director and designers - that is the most embracing and provocative part of being a director.

Many directors will tell, the process of rehearsals is more joyful than the performance itself. And it is during this multi-faceted process that the director can hope to find the value and worth of playing in the sometimes awfully serious game that is theatre.

The final stages of the rehearsals can be the most embracing of all as the director "composes the performance". He knows that in the end it will be incomplete, and that is why a director continues to work during the performance process itself.

His is a never-ending journey with one final destination - to make a connection with the audience.

In our last meetings with the two "candidate" directors, Joe Hasham and I have endeavoured to convey the supreme joy of being a director amidst burdens, struggles and anxieties. It is so good to work with Joe again to create dialogues about directing, this time, with Reza and James.

Krishen Jit
9th March 2001