But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
I think theater ought to be theatrical.
I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.
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