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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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.
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'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
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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.
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The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
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Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
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I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
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In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
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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.
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To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.
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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.