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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.