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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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.
would-be hermits theater
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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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
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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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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
technology self density
I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.
twilight civilization play
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 strongly urged those involved to release the arrested government officials.
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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,