Offending the audience is part of the function of theatre... Charles Spencer in The Telegraph
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...as our connections to people get more and more virtual, [will] our craving for live experience get greater or diminish? Isaac at Parabasis
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If great art results from great suffering, this emerging generation of young artists is poised to reach new heights. From Artists In Real Life by Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
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...if a play were to run forever, could it properly be called theater anymore? Instead it would be an ossified strange thing, dangling half-way between live theater, a parade, and an amusement park ride. Think of the longest running plays…what happens to them…what do they become…restaurants and plays should not be open for longer than… Continue reading Talking Point
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I sometimes think that theatre is a torture. Juliet Stevenson
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We pin our hopes to the sporting public. Make no bones about it, we have our eye on those huge concrete pans filled with men and women of every variety of class and physiognomy, the fairest and shrewdest audience in the world. There you will find persons paying high prices and working things out on… Continue reading Talking Point
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. Edward Albee
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...good writing cannot redeem bad acting the way great acting can redeem mediocre writing. Karl Miller - Against a National Theatre
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If, as so many people say, theatre has become irrelevant (and I don't think it has; I think it's relevance has gone underground during the tornado of triviality that has swept through the last 25 years) it may be because theatre artists, in the desperate need to simply survive, have lost an awareness of the… Continue reading Talking Point
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I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising. Lusia Strus
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. Enid Bagnold - Playwright
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People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. Tony Kushner
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Theater is not just important—I believe it is easily the most important art form that exists. Mike Daisey
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Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed. Edward Bond
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We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. -Howard Barker
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