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“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.” quote by Tim Crouch — Download Open image

“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.”

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I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

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I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

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I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

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'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look…

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Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

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It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables…

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Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

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I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch.

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A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young…

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Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

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In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

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Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

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