You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
My audience is going to die before I do.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
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