Layering Time and Space: Inside Stan Lai's Creative Method

What if the secret to a lifetime of masterpieces was doing absolutely nothing at all?   #playwrightlife #livingtheatre #artandlife ================== ✦ Step more deeply into your Calling & bring it more to Life Book a Clarity Call with Catherine: https://beingspace.world/clarity ================== About my guest: Stan Lai grew up under martial law in Taiwan where no one became an artist, yet the clouds above Washington DC whispered to him about stillness, acceptance, and letting things form themselves. A Berkeley PhD who accidentally became the most celebrated Chinese-language playwright alive, he has spent forty years conducting plays like weather systems, layering time and place so audiences feel life unfolding all around them. The New York Times named his Secret Love in Peach Blossom Landone of the essential works of theatre of the last century. Where our conversation went: 00:00 Welcome to Stan Lai 01:15 The clouds taught me everything 03:00 Stillness at five years old 05:20 Letting plays form like clouds 07:45 Knowing the rules, then releasing them 10:10 Nature as the ultimate teacher 12:30 The conductor of living theatre 15:00 Layering time and space onstage 18:20 Theatre does what film cannot 21:00 The hidden play nobody knew about 24:15 How love chose his path 27:00 No scripts, so he wrote his own 30:00 The scholar director is found 33:20 Secret Love and divided worlds 36:00 When wisdom meets method 39:15 The fingers are incredible but 42:00 Creativitry after twenty years 45:10 Rewriting wisdom for English readers 48:00 Staying just ahead of the audience 51:00 Being here with you now 53:00 Where to find Stan online #theatre life #creativewisdom #stillnesspractice #podmatch Find Stan: https://pwshop.com/in His book Creativitry: https://a.co/d/0epZTDwu =========== Support the show ========================= More episodes https://truthandtranscendence.com   ✦ Step more deeply into your Calling & bring it more to Life Book a Clarity Call with Catherine: https://beingspace.world/clarity     🤝 Join our Being Space Community ✦ Podcast: / https://truthandtranscendence.com ✦ Website: / https://beingspace.world ✦ YouTube: / https://www.youtube.com/@BEINGSPACEcatherinellewellyn ✦ Instagram: / https://www.instagram.com/beingspace.world/ ✦ Facebook: / https://www.facebook.com/BeingSpaceWorld ✦ TikTok: / https://www.tiktok.com/@beingspace.world    Support the podcast: https://truthandtranscendence.com/donate