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I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry V.' Plays aren't puzzles. They are about playing. But so much theatre has become about performing and acting rather than playing, which is a great pity because audiences are captivated by watching people play.
— Robert Lepage
Tags: theatre, uncle, people, great

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When we did 'The Dragons' Trilogy,' China was a big, mysterious piece of rock that we never thought would even move. It was impenetrable, impossible to deal with.
— Robert Lepage
Tags: big, rock, impossible, never
A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant.
— Robert Lepage
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Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating.
— Robert Lepage
Tags: talking, theatre, know, people
There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.
— Robert Lepage
Tags: nothing, way, imagination, you
There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.
— Robert Lepage
Tags: real, others, better, people
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