Insanity As A Business Model

“In its increasingly aggressive campaign to establish itself as a showcase of Canadian theatre, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre is hiring a controversial Quebec director who says he plans to go mad on the job… In accepting the task of programming a nine-production playbill in a city with small and conservative theatre audiences, [Wajdi] Mouawad boldly announced that art is born from artists’ hallucinatory perspectives that change the way we see the world, and that his job was to promote this kind of madness.”