All great directors put the good ideas into their back pockets and head to their home theaters to give them a go.
in 2009 a great director sat in the audience of another great director’s Our Town in Manhattan. I guess great director #1 loved it because he went home to Atlanta to do his own production …
with a few marked similarities.
Modern dress. (not early 1900’s)
A real breakfast cooked onstage in Act 3.
(no photo can well describe the smell of bacon…thank goodness…my semi-vegetarian kids walk around the playground declaring, ‘we have the meats!’ Arby’s commercials inspire them so.)
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