The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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.
Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.
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.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
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