Pop Up Playground’s Outside: The Cloud. Photo by Sarah Walker.
During a recent visit to Melbourne, the French-Canadian playwright, actor and director Robert Lepage bemoaned the way the professional theatre industry has lost its sense of playfulness.
‘People are interested in acting and I don’t like “acting”. Well, not on the stage. And the playfulness that I’m talking about is not just playfulness amongst actors, it’s also between the audience and the actor … the player. And I think that’s kind of been evacuated from the stages in the 20th century,’ Lepage said in an appearance at the 2016 Melbourne Festival.
