1957 • Canadian • Playwright
People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.
Chaos is a good thing.
Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.
I need to have many things cooking at the same time.
I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium.
The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London.
