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Richard Foreman

"You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army."

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"You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army."

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

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"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."

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"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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"I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre."
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"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
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"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language."
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"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional."
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"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
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"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience."
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"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."
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