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Well, All The Plays That I Was Trying To Write Were Plays That Would Grab An Audience By The Throat And Not Release Them, Rather Than Presenting An Emotion Which You Could Observe And Walk Away From.

My Conception Of The Audience Is Of A Public Each Member Of Which Is Carrying About With Him What He Thinks Is An Anxiety, Or A Hope, Or A Preoccupation Which Is His Alone And Isolates Him From Mankind And In This Respect At Least The Function Of A Play Is To Reveal Him To Himself So That He May Touch Others By Virtue Of The Revelation Of His Mutuality With Them. If Only For This Reason I Regard The Theater As A Serious Business, One That Makes Or Should Make Man More Human, Which Is To Say, Less Alone.

I Think Now That The Great Thing Is Not So Much The Formulation Of An Answer For Myself, For The Theatre, Or The Play - But Rather The Most Accurate Possible Statement Of The Problem.

If You Analyse Anything, You Destroy It.

A Genuine Invention In The Realm Of Ideas Must First Emerge As An Abstruse And Even Partial Concept? At First Blusha New Idea Appearstobe Verycloseto Insanity Because To Be New It Must Reverse Important Basic Beliefs And Assumptions Which, In Turn, Have Been Institutionalized And Are Administered By One Or Another Kind Of Priesthood With A Vested Interest In An Old Idea.