Isherwood’s complaint, or: One slight problem with ‘natural’ theater by CHRIS BRAAK

The New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood recently decried the spread of “direct address”— in which actors speak directly to the audience rather than “naturally” to each other. So much for Euripides, Shakespeare, Beckett, Brecht and Thornton Wilder. Besides, is “natural” theater really natural?

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