Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Theatre quote of the week for Tuesday, July 2, 2013

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"I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about."

"There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility."

"But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic." - Tony Kushner

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