ABSTRACT

Do not show this letter to anyone as my opinion is quite superficial and unfounded and might mislead people who like to be clever about art rather than use their own feelings. But theatre art is so vivid, so full of imagery, it so fully illustrates the plays offered, that its form is accessible to everyone, from the professor to the peasant, from the young to the aged. This play will call for entirely new settings, furnishings, not the kind I have favoured for so long and which have come to be known under the clich+¬ of GÇ£Stanislavski's naturalism. GÇ¥ Nor the kind considered new and in the current fashion. But we are getting old, and therefore I should wish to see all the young members, those who are to replace us, make use of us before it is too late, while we can still talk and teach.