Tim Crouch
Tim Crouch
Tim Crouchis an experimental theatre maker: an actor, writer and director. His plays include My Arm, An Oak Tree, ENGLAND and The Author. These take various forms, but all reject theatrical conventions, especially realism, and invite the audience to help create the work. Interviewed in 2007, Crouch said, ‘Theatre in its purest form is a conceptual artform. It doesn’t need sets, costumes and props, but exists inside an audience’s head.’...
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It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.
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A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.
shakespeare work
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.
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There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
characters share sympathy
It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.
It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.
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In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.
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I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch.
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I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.
life seen work
I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.
theatre
Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.
'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.
common shakespeare work
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.
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Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.