5 Quotes & Sayings By Simon Mcburney

Simon McBurney is a British author, playwright, screenwriter and director. He is a multi-award winning playwright and has been hailed by the Evening Standard as "one of the most original voices in British theatre". He was named Director of the Year at the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his work on The Pillowman. In 2013 he directed The Encounter at London's Old Vic starring Helen McCrory and Tom Hiddleston Read more

His plays include The Pillowman, which transferred from Hampstead to Broadway in 2016, and The Infidel.

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Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Simon McBurney
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I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing. Simon McBurney
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Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV. Simon McBurney
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I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes. Simon McBurney