Word: cast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest triumphs in his guerrilla war with the Nazis. Produced with the President's personal advice and encouragement, the spectacle cost millions and runs for more than four hours. Last week Tito threw a party to celebrate the premiere, and his guest list included many of the international "cast of thousands"-Orson Welles, Yul Brynner, Franco Nero, Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger. Who plays Tito? No one. The biggest hero of the piece makes his presence felt without ever confronting the camera...
Almost immediately he launched a private war of his own. Cast in with veterans who sang the praises of pot and the hippie life, Raff voiced his objections to these values. When the other Marines responded by jeering at his English and his ancestry, Raff chose one of them and savagely attacked...
...What do you think were the problems facing your cast when you presented them with these ideas...
...applications for auditions, I added a note demanding total commitment to the production for ten weeks. I also told the cast at the first meeting that they would have few props, no scenery as such, no make-up, generally implying that they themselves would have to create any and all effects they might want, using their own bodies and voices. I also said that I, probably as much as they, had no idea how the production would...
From this basic premise I tried not to enforce anything but hoped that the production would grow out of the actors; had I worked with a different cast, it would have been an entirely different production...