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
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There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
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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.
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One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
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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.
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It would be nice to get to the point where I don't have to think about it any more. People slip up all the time and refer to me as 'she'. I've even done it once in a bar when a friend introduced me to someone and I said, 'Hi, I'm Vanda. Oh no I'm not. I'm Richard'.
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Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.
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We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.
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Like PACE, we at Learning Care Group are committed to creating educational environments that inspire a lifelong love of learning. High quality early educational experiences can have a lasting positive impact on students, and it is up to everyone in the early education field to see we make the most of the important role that we play.
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It all boils down to how much money you're going to spend.
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We have a tug-of-war going on between earnings, which are reasonably good, versus the Fed, where people are trying to figure out are they still going to tighten or not.
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Usually the Fed keeps raising rates until something goes wrong in the economy or the market. Even Alan Greenspan has never gotten it right.
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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.
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If anything, the talent from Burbank might have to move up to Emeryville. The animation center of the universe is moving to Emeryville.
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Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)