Kindle Notes & Highlights
“You have to bow down before the true god of theater, who is merciless and is saying, ‘This is not a text, this is an event happening in a room at this time in front of people who are under no obligation to remain,’”
Having capitulated for years to the crass forces of “relevance” and television commercialism in our quest for attention in an increasingly noisy world, the American theater has run out of resources and audiences just at the moment when what we do ought to matter more than ever. It is up to us to assert that the potency of two people in real time in a live encounter onstage can engage us more deeply and fully than all the blogs and special effects in the world.
