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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audience fair inspire interest provoke shakespeare works
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
close clown despair edge funny
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.
art attack certain mediation practices satirical
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
spectators
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
good
Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.
applying art becomes bit difficulty hugely large money starts subjective sums
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.
people shakespeare
Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
art practice violence
The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
light actors rooms
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.
art theatre special
Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
theatre emotion
Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.
art ideas creating
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
children exercise shadow
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
character underrated
I'm attracted to the underrated characters.