Monday, November 11, 2013

Ben Brantley

Of course, theater is one big illusion. That reality, or unreality, is fully acknowledged by the actors being onstage, donning their Elizabethan garb, when we enter the theater. Yet somehow once the plays proper start, we eagerly accept what’s happening not as a substitute for reality but as a heightened, truer version of it.

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