Colin Callender Quotes
In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic.
You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.
I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.
Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.
The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.
The play has to work for the super fans, and not speak down to them, and yet it had to play to those people who maybe had never read a Harry Potter book or seen the films.
I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.
My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.