I don't care for the 'new' in art - a stage set with a table, a chair, a bit of drapery - I don't think that pomp, pageantry and grandeur detract from the spoken work. The actor needs the atmosphere of beauty and artistry. Just now, we hear much of the new in art. 'Art is beauty' - and beauty is always new. Real art, real beauty, is ageless, deathless. It is something that is handed down from one generation to another and cannot be destroyed - nor can anything take its place... We don't need a new standard of beauty.
