Superfluities Redux
On culture and theatre, by George Hunka
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008
I do not know the theatre, and the theatre does not know me. ...
One has heard talk of many theatres existing, and of many forms, as if theatres tolerated one another. The fact is that theatres annihilate one another as all religions annihilate one another. Is this because theatre is a religion? Let us confess, the art of theatre has many of the characteristics of religion. For example, it finds so much theatre anathema. It excommunicates. Its methods are akin to prayer. What distinguishes it from all religion is this, however: that it recoils from truth. It repudiates truth as vulgarity.
Howard Barker
Death, the One and the Art of Theatre (2005)
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