- Playwright | June 10, 1937 -
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
Richard Foreman
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You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
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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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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
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All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
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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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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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There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
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