Tim Crouch Quotes

Tim Crouch — Director

Tim Crouch is an experimental theatre maker: an actor, writer and director. His plays include My Arm, An Oak Tree, ENGLAND and The Author. These take various forms, but all reject theatrical conventions, especially realism, and invite the audience to help create the work. Interviewed in 2007, Crouch said, ‘Theatre in its purest form is a conceptual artform. It doesn’t need sets, costumes and props, but exists inside an audience’s head.’.. (wikipedia)

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

Tim Crouch Quotes

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