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Simon McBurney

English Actor

Born: Aug 25, 1957

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'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness. Simon McBurney

Change People Think Flute Magic Asking Consciousness Fundamentally

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. Simon McBurney

Art Theatre Gone Only Exists Art Form Form Then Present

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.' Simon McBurney

Art You Theatre Reality World Too Much Cloud Too Say Layer Through Perhaps Pierce Make Making Real End Up Artifice Hang Which Might Much Creating Show Function Why Things

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves. Simon McBurney

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I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete. Simon McBurney

Work You Feeling Sense Down Earth Solid Rather Given Directors Laying Concept Call Always Am Concrete Impose Up German Than Fixed Get Pattern Should

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold. Simon McBurney

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera. Simon McBurney

Bit Opera Least Years Interested

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