My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
From Richard Foreman
Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
It's true, I don't like the real world.
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
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