One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
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I like to think of the notebooks as a pool of raw material, ... I make plays of out it, so why can't other people I just identify with this idea that I'm a funnel for this material that doesn't particularly belong to me.Richard Foreman
My rule for staging for the first six years, at least, was to make the staging be an ex-ray of the text. Try to be as simple, to do as little as possible, and only to do what was really indicated in the text.
Richard Foreman
I wrote an outline. I wrote a rough draft. And then I rewrote and rewrote and rewrote. And that's the way you were supposed to write plays.
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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 don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
Richard Foreman
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
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