Communication Quote by Neil Postman

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

— Bill Hicks

“The theater of the absurd represented a contrast to realistic theater. Its aim was to show the lack of meaning in life in order…

— Jostein Gaarder

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

— Martin Esslin

“The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought. It expands the void, the mindlessness that makes…

— Chris Hedges

“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come when we…

— Neil Postman

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre…

— Iris Murdoch

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru…

— Mark Fisher

There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the…

— Rachel Cusk

“Here, television succeeded in completing a fantastic operation of directed consensus building, a real power grab, an OPA [Tender offer] to the entire society,…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

— Anonymous

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

— Norman Mailer