A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the collaborative power of imagination in creating art and experiences.
Robert Lepage highlights how raw materials alone are insufficient to create magic; it is the combination of skillful craftsmanship and the audience's imagination that brings art to life. In theatre, this collaboration transforms simple elements into extraordinary experiences, illustrating the profound impact of creativity and shared imagination.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at a theatre opening to emphasize the power of collaboration in art.
Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who just directs the traffic. My job is to move the ideas and bits of the show into the places where they work best. Sometimes my job is also to say, 'No.'
I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.
From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
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