Theatre
Stereophonic
The tenuous nature of creativity
Golden Theatre
by Diane Stubbings •
The cast of Stereophonic (photograph by Julieta Cervantes)
There is a perennial fascination with the nature of creativity – what ignites it, what sustains it, and what, too often, destroys it. In this, creativity might be viewed as analogous to life itself, the consequence of a complex array of often unpredictable connections and influences, its ultimate viability always uncertain. That any individual cell of an idea develops into a fully fledged work of art, let alone one that survives across the centuries, is no less than miraculous.
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