"Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt……" — Richard Foreman
"Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst."
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24 Quotes by Richard Foreman
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Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
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My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
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I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like'…
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I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under…
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Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they…
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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
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As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors…
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I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I…
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
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It's true, I don't like the real world.
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One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
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I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people…
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