Angus Fletcher
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2,582 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Angus Fletcher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because what happens in theater is first of all, of course, the writer gives his story over to the actors and the actors each take part of the story and so on and so forth.
And so it becomes that kind of a creative activity.
But also when you watch an actor on stage,
They have to forget the future parts of the story and discover them from the other actors in the moment.
Otherwise it doesn't work as a play.
It just seems like a formula.
But if the actors are good and they're able in the moment to discover the story and then discover the story in the other characters, then they build the story together.
Because what a story is, is it's essentially a single direction.
When you come together in a story, you combine in an act of beauty, in a going in a direction.
And bad stories are my attempt to convince you that my story is correct and force you into my direction.
But good stories are us co-creating that path together.
What did they teach you about stories in school that was not correct?
So we had a big book, I remember when I was a kid, 12 years old or so, the book that I loved was the book of myths.
And they tell you like there are these authoritative myths.
And so they say, this is the story of Helen and Troy, or this is the story of Medusa or whatever.
And you're like, oh, this is what everyone in the ancient world thought.
And then if you pull another book of myths off the shelf at your library, you realize that the myths in there are different, and they tell a different story in Medusa.
Wait, how is that possible?
How are there two stories in Medusa?
And what they try and convince you of in school is that there's a single version of the story, when in fact, these stories were oral, and every time they were performed, they were recreated.
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