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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 at. "
Tim Crouch
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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 thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished. "
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" Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. "
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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. "
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" To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work. "
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" Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky. "
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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 audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth. "
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" It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful. "
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" Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. "
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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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" It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world. "
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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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" Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people. "
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