diary / by Edward Mullany

When a theater company stages a play, for instance, the creative artist responsible for the existence of the play, which might have been written centuries before, can be said to reach out to, or commune with, the intelligence of the audience, by way of the actors who give dramatic life to the work, and who can be described as the interpretive artists. But when a work of art lives and dies with the performance itself, so that afterward it would seem to have vanished, or been retired by the only intelligence that could properly give it a dramatization, we can say that the creative intelligence and the interpretive intelligence are one, or that they are found in the same person.