"I have for years tried to define proscenium thinking. I understand why people cling to it--like sailors on a sinking raft. Proscenium thinking is not usually thinking, but a director's reaction to a set form following accepted principles. A director can work in a proscenium theatre for years without a single new idea or thought; it stimulates formula directing."
-Paul Baker, 1968
Baker is a delightfully colorful West Texas nonagenarian-and a theatrical genius. Over the last 50 years, he has created significant academic theater programs at Baylor and Trinity universities, become the founding artistic director of the Dallas Theater Center (which he ran for over two decades and in doing so helped launch the strong post-World War II American regional theater movement), developed and directed hundreds of original plays, advanced the state of theater architecture and design, and written a seminal text, Integration of Abilities: Exercises for Creative Growth.
.-Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L., TX
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