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A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.

— Tim Crouch

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

— Tom Stoppard

I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

— Laura Wade

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

— Kenneth Branagh

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

— Maya Lin

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

— Adam Rapp

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

— James Nesbitt

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

— David Mamet

✗Opposing Perspectives

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

— Roger Rees

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

— Edward St Aubyn