Director's Notes

A Note from the Executive/Artistic Director

A profound awe was awakened in Astronaut Russell Schweikart by the unique perspective of the Earth he witnessed from space. “It is so small and so fragile and such a precious little spot in that universe that you can block it out with your thumb. And you realize on that small spot, that little blue-and-white thing, is everything that means anything to you - all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love.” It was 1969, and science had propelled mankind beyond the limits of the Earth’s atmosphere to achieve a view of Earth no one had ever experienced before. Albert Einstein said, “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Amidst the vasty fields of space, Earth exists as a small dot of impossible and multitudinous miracles. Like Einstein and Schweikart - frontiersman in science and space – theatre artists are explorers of the human heart and soul. And perhaps like these brethren explorers in science, it is the search for illuminating perspective that occupies our labor. We are, in part, attempting to tickle the mystery and wonder out of the mundane and prosaic; teasing a unique perspective of the human experience that might render us all a bit more open-eyed towards one another. It is, perhaps, the greatest gift we give our patrons - the opportunity for an altered perspective that affects the way we experience each other.

Part of the undeniable alchemy of Creede exists in being touched or tickled by a performance and then walking outside to be further transported by a dazzling display of high mountain stars overhead. For 90% of our audience, it’s a long trip to Creede, but every year more people visit. There’s an intoxicating magic in making the pilgrimage to this isolated part of the Rocky Mountains.  Perhaps it’s due to those electric threads of connection made between our hearts, the Universe, our joy, and our fellow travelers on this “precious little spot.”

Happy play gazing,

Maurice LaMee
Executive/Artistic Director
Creede Repertory Theatre