ABSTRACT
The most powerful personality is the playwright or his representative, that is to say a literary director. This becomes a literary theatre in which the principal place is occupied by a carefully chosen repertory and subtle interpretations of a playwright's works. In such theatres the interesting elements are: the general concepts of and approach to a play, the treatment of ideas, style, images, characters, psychology. An actor can comprehend with his mind the playwright's idea or the director's, and convey it to the public by external technical means, yet not participate with his soul in another person's treatment of the play. The more subtle, complex, even talented a cultivated director's imaginative inventions may be, the harder will be the task of the actor. He needs an immense talent, a perfect technique, to be able even to some degree to catch up with divagations of the director's feelings, or the tangents of his imagination.
