Tim Crouch Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.”

“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.”

“To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.”

“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.”