Elliot B. Quick teaches Theater History for Actors at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Here, Elliot discusses the importance of authorial intent for actors and playwrights. This past May, much was written about the slippery concept of “authorial intent.” When a small...
Henrick Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House closes with one of the theater’s most iconic moments of sound design: after awakening to how her entire life has been defined by the men in it, Nora breaks free from her captivity as daughter, wife, and mother, descending the...
