ABSTRACT
Robert Price in “Undeveloped Freight: Listening Together in the Playhouse” recalls a Richard III where the actor playing Richard, in a burst of improv, delivered a very contemporary, gross insult to Buckingham, at first onstage and then in the house. A King Lear tenderly kissing a dead Cordelia, “the tiniest kiss heard from all the way up in the gods” and “in the cheapest of the cheap seats.” The change of a single word in a line from Brendan Behan’s The Hostage in a production in Dublin during the ceasefire between the British and the IRA, which led to an impassioned reaction in the audience and backstage. For this actor–director, the theatre is “happening right here, inside of us.”
