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In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

— Jeremy Begbie

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…

— Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs…

— Arnold Aronson

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to…

— Robert Wilson

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of…

— Jean Baudrillard

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

— Dario Fo

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

— Jean Baudrillard

“attitudes were increasingly rejected; and now, in the twenty-first century, much of the energy and creative thinking in our culture operates off postmodern assumptions.”

— Heath White

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and…

— Will Self

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the…

— Walter Darby Bannard