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
years trying lasts
I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.
people missing unhappy
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.
roots waiting firsts
Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
unique technology men
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.'
chance condo guide opportunity opposed ourselves progress realm soon
I'm opposed to any kind of condo development in the harbor. I think if we go with something this soon of that magnitude, then we're really shortchanging ourselves the opportunity to guide our own growth. It's so out of the realm of what we really need. We want progress but this is our chance to guide it, not let it guide us.
peace process
There's been a lot of speculation, one way or the other, on the peace process