I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Sรธren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning.
Keith JohnstoneEvery theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.
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