Histrio - an interview with the Artistic Director An Interview with the Artistic Director Genevieve Brunet Smith Genevieve earned a PhD in Romance Languages from the University of California, at Berkeley. She teaches French literature at the Smithsonian Institution.
Theater is a unique means of expression.
First, it utilizes dramatic texts, not necessarily written for the theater, but texts which can be enacted on a stage. Second, it employs the body and the psyche as vehicles of expression. The development of gesture on the stage depends on the culture of the public for whom the play is enacted. Washington is a city of cultural diversity, a city accustomed to a multiplicity of cultures. Even though it is sometimes necessary to reluctantly make cuts, teh text must retain its dynamic and its eloquence, for it is the text which gives each actor the opportunity of expressing deep convictions.