As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.
Simon McBurneyThe only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.
Simon McBurneyI mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.
Simon McBurneyUltimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
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