Selling our souls to the devil

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Jorge
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Capela, José Manuel do Couto Ramos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/90925
• topic: Financiamento das artes; Fausto; Humanidades::Artes

[Excerpt] We want to make a theatre masterpiece. Nothing less. An unquestionably amazing show, an unpredictable invention, a magnificent event that makes everyone think that the world would not make sense without it happening and that, after it, nothing can be as it was before. A truly revolutionary show. But it is not easy. We have to work. Persistently. Until we reach a product of such a high level. And of course, we do not know already how this is done. We have to find out. Working will allow to discover that something that we do not know what it is and, as we need money to be able to work, someone will have to invest in us: give us money for us to work on something that, from the start, nobody knows what it will be.[...]