1. The Deadly Theatre
- P.11 I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged. Yet when we talk about theatre this is not quite what we mean.
- The Deadly Theatre can at first sight be taken for granted, because it means bad theatre.
- P.18 A professional theatre assembles different people every night and speaks to them through the language of behaviour. A performance gets set and usually has to be repeated - and repeated as well and accurately as possible - but from the day it is set something invisible is beginning to die.
- P.35 In a deadly vacuum there are few places where we can properly learn the arts of the theatre - so we tend to drop in on the theatre offering love instead of science. This is what he unfortunate critic is nightly called to judge.
- P.36 This goal should be the same for artist and critic - the moving towards a less deadly, but, as yet, largely undefined theatre. This is our eventual purpose, our shared aim, and noting all the signpost and footprints on the way is our common task.
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