“Making original work offers the opportunity to create A UNIVERSE FROM SCRATCH. You can, in fact, create a universe with its own laws of time, space, and logic. It is certainly possible to do this by studying and replicating an actual time and place if that is what the piece requires, but you also have the ability to say: “Anything is possible. So what should happen?” or “Why should objects fall to the ground as opposed to float upward” With a healthy sense of adventure and facing a blank page, you can set off into the unknown.”- Anne Bogart
“What is the experience that theatre gives? It is ephemeral. It disappears. On the last night of a play, the set is destroyed. There is nothing that remains…except the possibility to live life more fully, less fragmented, and more harmoniously. Why does a child play with toys and puppets? That’s how he learns about the world. When we go to the theatre, the child in us is still full of the expectation of discovering the secret of what is behind the curtain. In the subconscious, we are also trying to verify something about our lives, to find some answers. There are no answers. Only the joy of living in that mystery....”
–Andrei Serban
“What is the experience that theatre gives? It is ephemeral. It disappears. On the last night of a play, the set is destroyed. There is nothing that remains…except the possibility to live life more fully, less fragmented, and more harmoniously. Why does a child play with toys and puppets? That’s how he learns about the world. When we go to the theatre, the child in us is still full of the expectation of discovering the secret of what is behind the curtain. In the subconscious, we are also trying to verify something about our lives, to find some answers. There are no answers. Only the joy of living in that mystery....”
–Andrei Serban
