Tim Crouch Quotes
- In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
- I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
- A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences…
- To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.
- Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
- Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.
- As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.
- Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
- Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
- A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
- Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.