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Chris Braak is a playwright and novelist from Philadelphia.

Chris Braak is a playwright and novelist from Philadelphia. He writes regularly for Threat Quality Press, and on the blog for Iron Age Theatre's Special Operations Executive.

You can find more from him at www.chrisbraak.com.

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Chekhov's three sisters talk to each other, but....

Should actors address the audience?

Isherwood's complaint, or: One slight problem with 'natural' theater

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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Oct 29, 2010 Articles 5 minute read