Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman
Richard Foremanis an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater...
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 June 1937
art struggle book
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.
technology self density
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’.
age trying use
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.
writing play new-day
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
emotional over-you trying
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.
senior school aggravation
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.
ukulele actors theater
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
real world real-world
It's true, I don't like the real world.
art doe shock
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
art real issues
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.
trying honest being-honest
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
army yale wanted
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
real world enchanted
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.
would-be hermits theater
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.