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" There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. "

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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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" To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work. "

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" I'm attracted to the underrated characters. "

" 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. "

" Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. "

" '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. "

" It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world. "

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

" As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room. "

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

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