Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
Simon McBurneyPeople expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.
Simon McBurneyYes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.
Simon McBurneyAs 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 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 McBurneyThe only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is by listening and observing not only to life around you but to the other people who are in the room. It's not about a sort of, you know, a sense that you have to be democratic about these things, it's a question of creativity that the process of making theatre is a collaborative process, and it is not in, it is not a question of, you know, I have no interest in paying lip service to it, for me it's absolutely fundamental.
Simon McBurney