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
landscape texas work
The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.
cultural unlike
In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.
drawn forms shakespeare
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
apparent became learnt met period raymond school seemed signs terms visual
I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements.
I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.
I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
content family relationship work
I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.
New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.
full present time update work
I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.
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.
beginning finding since taking
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
rehearsal start work
I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.
body
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.