In actual practice most directors take positions more or less in the middle of these two extremes. Those who tend toward the revisionist school believe in ensuring that the audience will experience the riches the playwright has to offer, and those who incline more to the collaborative school are willing to consider making limited script changes. Both schools tend to agree that no director has a right to exploit the script for self-serving reasons. Exploitation in this case means to select a play based on eagerness to build one's personal resume, without regard for the theatre's needs, or to corrupt the playwright's work by forcing an overlay of personal opinions on the script. Such practices can confuse the audience or make them conclude that the playwright wrote a confused play.
Most directors believe such exploitation violates directorial ethics.
The show must go on The good news is that the Trinidad Theatre Workshop has found a temporary new home after being evicted from the Old Fire Station, its home for the past ten years. The bad news is, of course, that the TTW has lost the battle to keep the Old Fire Station, where the company had hoped that its school for the arts would be permanently based. The site was taken back by the Government, however, to form part of the new National Library Complex. The most recent was the gala dinner and recital held at the Cascadia Hotel, St Ann's, on June 26. Bella Makes Life .