I suppose I could tell them that this is not necessary, that they could move the action indoors and take the audience along as well, but that would change their drama until it would be unrecognizable. The kind of drama the Greeks saw was public and communal rather than privately psychological. Our drama has elements of this public and communal, of course, but I try to delve more into the psychology of real characters and to make my characters human beings with flaws then did the Greeks. Their characters were heroes and Gods usually with only one flaw, the fatal flaw that destroys my characters as well. For the Greeks, though, the drama is like their theater--exterior, based on the outward presentation of the characters to the audience.
This is true in the use of masks as well. I see the actors now holding masks before their faces. The actors represent types more than individuals, and the exterior presentation of type is embodied i
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