Directed by Tim Maddock, designed by Mary Moore. It is easy to forget that theatre is an art. During Aubrey Mellor's launch of the 1997 Playbox Theatre season in Melbourne, he said, among other things, that Australia's cultural identity was under threat. If Australia's cultural identity is truly under threat, the threat lies most tellingly in the cowardice of the culture itself. The programs of our major companies reek with a kind of sickness.
Art is always a pursuit of beauty.
It is no paradox to talk of beauty when what artists create in their struggle towards beauty is often perceived as ugliness. As Heiner Muller said, the new is always horrible. But art allows us a more generous possibility of being. Theatre can teach us this more immediately than any other art. As Borges said, every artist creates his own tradition.