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• A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.
• There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.
• A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude…
• In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks…
• I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else…
• The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
• Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
• Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible…
• Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of…
• The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community…
• Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and…
• The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

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