Centre or margins?

Eugenio Barba:

Where is the centre and where are the margins? Are we working at the centre or at the margins [of theatre]?

Whether you work at the centre or the margins of theatre depends on whether it is essential to you.

If you can’t live without it then it becomes central and you are working at the centre.

It is what comes out of you, from where you are – you look around and take in the spirit of the age or the spirit of the age comes in to you.

Notes from Theater East and West: Revisited, 2002, a conference in honour of Leonard Pronko’s work and the 35th anniversary of his book, Theater East and West.