Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
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