To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'
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I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
Most theater tells you what to think.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
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.
The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.
When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.
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.
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