Notes
1 For a definition of the term ‘stage figure’, see Michael Quinn, ‘Celebrity and the Semiotics of Acting’, New Theatre Quarterly, 6.22 (1990), 154–61.
2 For a detailed account of rehearsals, see Gay McAuley, Not Magic but Work: An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012).
3 This quote is from the rehearsal script, which differs slightly from the published version.
4 Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theatre, trans. by John Willett (London: Eyre Methuen, 1964), p. 166.