Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman
Richard Foremanis an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater...
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 June 1937
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Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
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I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
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I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.
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If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
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You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
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I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
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I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
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As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
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My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
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Until South Korea ends its political transition, it might be perceived to be a little unseemly for us (America) to move forward.
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We are actively considering all these legal issues and trying to work with the other governments involved to make sure that their concerns are satisfied,
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We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.
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There are people who love beef but they're concerned about it (fitting into a healthy diet). We're not out to convert the world but to learn more from a cooking perspective.
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When we see Israel suffering these horrible bombings, when we see this kind of violence threatening once again to make progress more difficult, we're keeping in touch with the other players.