LOVE AND CELEBRATE YOUR IDEAS

As stage designers our creative processes are constituted by points of magic intuition and exhausting routes of reworking: moments of joy and satisfaction and eternities of instability and repetition, with the sensation of carrying a gift that is also a weight. Our destination is the theatre itself but we often can get lost in the process. As the rock of Sisyphus, our ideas seem to go up and down multiple times while we push them to our destination. And also every time we “reach the top” and realise one idea, we’ll have to fall again back to the bottom of the process for the next one. As Camus says about the condition of Sisyphus, even our apparently vane fight to the top, to the final joy, can make our life a joyous pro- cess itself. As Sisyphus fights his way to the top, believing in his act, even if the Gods are against him, we face the challenge to create something non-existing every time, and the fight to the top itself can fill our human hearts. Is, as Camus says, our vane journey to the top enough to fill our human hearts?