Over the weekend, I attended a one-act play competition to see the high school I graduated from in their presentation of Act IV of Shakespeare\'s \"The Comedy of Errors.\" I didn\'t know what to expect, having never read or seen the play, but I was excited because Shakespeare is always entertainin...

In this essay, I plan to look at two theatre practitioners whose lives were dominated by their desire for change: change to prevailing theatre practice, which they saw as inhibiting experimentation. Above all, they were people who took risks, since by challenging outmoded ideas they were forced to p...