“I get very impatient with people who say ‘I go to the theatre to be taken out of myself.’ I think, ‘There’s probably nothing in yourself.’ I’m only interested in making sure people are reintroduced to themselves. Great theatre draws your attention to things in real life, to the negligible, the boring and nondescript. A playwright like Chekhov makes that considerable and reintroduces us to the things that we have overlooked.”
Jonathan Miller (interviewed in The Independent, Aug. 3, 2010)
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