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"I think there is no world without theatre."
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."
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"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
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"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"With my background, I came out of the theater."
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"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
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"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."
Society
"I'm interested in the real world."
World
"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
Language
"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."
Humanity
"I'm not interested in an imaginary world."
World
"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
Play
"Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time."
Time
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
Opinion
"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
Language
"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
People
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