What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York.… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
