Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
An American author, philosopher, psychologist, and essayist, he co-authored The Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea. His other popular works include Schrodinger's Cat (a novel) and Wilhelm Reich in Hell (a play).
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
variations
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
shakespeare work
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.
nature work
I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.
baroque both items maybe
If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.
broader material opera presented range
I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.
human improving intelligence nervous studying system
Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
cynics equally everybody except idealists regarded
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.
drawn forms shakespeare
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
cultural unlike
In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.
cold difficulty dreadful early listen marlene pick
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.
founder invited money paying ridiculous speak
Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
rehearsal start work
I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.
landscape texas work
The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.
interpret music served staging work
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.