Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this… — Mark Ravenhill Candide Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now… — Mark Ravenhill Cases Copy Share Image
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave… — Mark Ravenhill Becoming Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the… — Mark Ravenhill America Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but… — Mark Ravenhill Anger Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage.… — Mark Ravenhill Balancing act Copy Share Image
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate… — Mark Ravenhill 140 character Copy Share Image
In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched. — Mark Ravenhill Business Copy Share Image
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. — Mark Ravenhill Character Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Books Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Appreciation Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill Beats Copy Share Image
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly. — Mark Ravenhill Book Copy Share Image
We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away. — Mark Ravenhill Denial Copy Share Image
The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were. — Mark Ravenhill Bad thing Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Add Copy Share Image
Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels… — Mark Ravenhill Candide Copy Share Image
Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something… — Mark Ravenhill Alternatives Copy Share Image
It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide! — Mark Ravenhill Book Copy Share Image
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