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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."

"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."

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."

"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor."

"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
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