Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. Tim Crouch More Quotes by Tim Crouch More Quotes From Tim Crouch The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at. Tim Crouch responsibility play looks I'm attracted to the underrated characters. Tim Crouch underrated character The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. Tim Crouch violence practice art 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. Tim Crouch shadow exercise children I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. Tim Crouch creating ideas art Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it. Tim Crouch theatre emotion As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room. Tim Crouch atoms actors light Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end. Tim Crouch end beginning never good In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago. Tim Crouch problems reality years art 'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place. Tim Crouch more die will place Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre. Tim Crouch often just 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. Tim Crouch some stronger ideas art 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 start you money art I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work. Tim Crouch real want work life I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch. Tim Crouch mission artist sometimes people 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. Tim Crouch ignore kings children people It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful. Tim Crouch see me powerful important 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. Tim Crouch person story real play To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work. Tim Crouch the-most-important important work Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything. Tim Crouch game audience young inspire
