Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment.
I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.
Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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.