I Can Take Any Empty Space And

Theatres, Actors, Critics And Public Are Interlocked In A Machine That Creaks But Never Stops. There Is Always A New Season In Hand And We Are To Busy To Ask The Only Vital Question Which Measures The Whole Structure. Why Theatre At All? What For? Is It An Anachronism, A Superannuated Oddity? Surviving Like An Old Monument Or A Quaint Custom? Why Do We Applaud And What? Has The Stage A Real Place In Our Lives? What Function Can It Have? What Could It Serve? What Could It Explore? What Are Its Special Properties?

I Am Ready To Disclaim My Opinion, Even Of Yesterday, Even Of 10 Minutes Ago, Because All Opinions Are Relative. One Lives In A Field Of Influences, One Is Influenced By Everyone One Meets, Everything Is An Exchange Of Influences, All Opinions Are Derivative. Once You Deal A New Deck Of Cards, You've Got A New Deck Of Cards.

An Icon Painter Starts Not With Jesus Christ But By Finding Earth And Rubbing. Now What Is Earth, What Are You Rubbing In Directing?

Many Audiences All Over The World Will Answer Positively From Their Own Experience That They Have Seen The Face Of The Invisible Through An Experience On The Stage That Transcended Their Experience In Life. They Will Maintain That Oedipus Or Berenice Or Hamlet Or The Three Sisters Performed With Beauty And With Love Fires The Spirit And Gives Them A Reminder That Daily Drabness Is Not Necessarily All.

A Stage Space Has Two Rules: (1) Anything Can Happen And (2) Something Must Happen.