A Director's Vision

Dominic Cooke explains the essential choices a director has to make about a play when creating a production for the stage. Using his production of The Comedy...

“Shakespeare can be in so many different worlds “which makes it fun to direct and design and maybe why students have trouble with it, because it is so open and can happen in so many different ways. Shakespeare makes sense only in the moment, in conversation, in physicality so reading it on your feet is always so important to me. I loved hearing from these artists making an old play new and exciting through some of the same methods that we use in Theatre class.

QUESTIONS: What is the first and most important question a director must ask when he is starting to look at a play? What were some of the dynamics/intentions the director explored in his version of The Comedy of Errors? Did this modern day London version feel authentic for a Shakespeare play?