When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries.
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The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.