Quotes by Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman

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.

Emotional

Over You

Trying

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

Age

Sentimental

Trying

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.

Art

Book

Struggle

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.

Aggravation

School

Senior

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and ‘cathedral-like’ structure of the highly educated and articulate personality–a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self–evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available.’

Men

Technology

Unique

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Being Honest

Honest

Trying

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Information

Self

Technology

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not… well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

Enchanted

Real

World

I’m there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don’t like it, I’m very unhappy, but I can’t do anything about that.

Missing

People

Unhappy

I’ve been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

Lasts

Trying

Years

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Actors

Age

Aggravation

Army

Art

Being Honest

Book

Doe

Emotional

Enchanted

Expression

Firsts

Gdp

Hermits

Honest

Information

Issues

Lasts

Made

Men

Missing

New Day

Over You

People

Play

Real

Real World

Roots

School

Self

Senior

Sentimental

Shock

Struggle

Technology

Theater

Truthful

Trying

Twilight

Ukulele

Unhappy

Unique

Waiting

Wanted

World

Would Be

Writing

Yale

Years

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Quotes by Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman

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.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

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.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not… well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

I’m there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don’t like it, I’m very unhappy, but I can’t do anything about that.

I’ve been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

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