"Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank."

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Source : Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.47, Routledge

Patrice Pavis

#Memories Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Heritage Quotes

“I always have admired what Bill Cunningham does, his body of work. I think it's a really important, seminal body of work. I think Bill celebrates creativity and self-expression. So it's really a lot of different kind of threads, all through the lens of Bill Cunningham.”
“I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.”
“We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.”
“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.”
“Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.”
“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”

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