Richard Foreman Quotes

• My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

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• You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

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• Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience’s response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don’t care about the audience’s response, I’m making them for myself. But I’m making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

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• What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

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• There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

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• So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

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• Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

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• One does not devote one’s life in art to shock an audience.

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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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• My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

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  Tags in Feeling, Play, Expression

• It’s true, I don’t like the real world.

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• If I wasn’t in the theater, I would be a hermit.

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• I’ve been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

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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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  Tags in Music, Anything, Kind

• I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not… well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

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• I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

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• I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

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  Tags in School, Group, High

• From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

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• Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

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  Tags in Feel, Trying, Used

• As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

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  Tags in Emotional, Too, Over

Richard Foreman (21)

Birth:	10th June, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Playwriter

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Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

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