In 2008th year I wrote detailed explications of two plays and planned to put them on the stage with a group of actors.

«Forget Herostratus» by Grigory Gorin
«Only Name in the Frozen Air...» by Olga Zverlina

These explications were highly appreciated by many professional actors whom I contacted, but due to financial difficulties and absence of actors of required dramatic types nothing came out. However I still plan to direct something in the future.

By the collected statistics I really like only about 1 play of 10. The probability of finding actors of required dramatic types is also equal to 1 per 10. (I don't pay money, they can receive only some percents of proceeds from the show.) And if all unpredictable circumstances (illness of an actor, shortage of money, conflicts with a playwright etc) will be considered the probability of success will become else 10 times less.

It means that I need to read at least 500-1000 plays, write explications for 50-100, and make 5-10 test performances before getting in the result 1-2 videorecords of performances made at high-quality professional level.

So, it's not such simple task as it may seem. :)

I decided to try myself in directing of theatrical plays instead of shooting short movies by 2 simple reasons:
a) shooting of short movies costs much more money;
b) it's much more simple to find a really high quality theatrical play than a high quality script for a short movie.