There's no naturalism in this show. Nothing is created to look like the natural world.

It just opens up their eyes to see that there is a whole world out there. That you can also play in college. There are opportunities out there. You may be able go to a place that you may not be able to afford, because there are scholarships out there.

The cutting edge dulls very quickly.

Everybody wears a visible harness. There are visible ropes all over the stage, both for gorillas and for Tarzan — and you see them literally clip in and harness up. It's part of the language of the piece.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

Less costs more