One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
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.
I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.
Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.
The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.
I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.