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.
Richard Foreman
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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.
Richard Foreman
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Because at Yale, each year I was writing a play in a different style. Not that they demanded that, but I was searching as any young artist would be.
Richard Foreman
4
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.
Richard Foreman
5
From the seventh through the twelfth grades, I probably designed and did a lot of the building for twenty or thirty productions.
Richard Foreman
6
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.
Richard Foreman
7
I used to go to theater a lot with my grandmother. She had a subscription to the Theater Guild; I used to go with her every Saturday afternoon.
Richard Foreman
8
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
Richard Foreman
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Richard Foreman
11
Now we speak in telegram form, we write little e-mails, and we have everything at our fingertips, so we don't train ourselves to keep anything inside.
Richard Foreman
12
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
Richard Foreman
13
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Richard Foreman
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Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.
Richard Foreman
15
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
Richard Foreman
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There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
Richard Foreman
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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
Richard Foreman
18
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.
Richard Foreman
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You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
Richard Foreman
