Top 19 Tim Crouch Quotes

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

‘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.

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.

I’m excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

I’m attracted to the underrated characters.

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.

It’s important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

It’s important for me, politically, to see that theater isn’t just about the powerful.

In ‘Malvolio,’ the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

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.

I don’t want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it’s just proselytising for the theatre.

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.

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

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it’s the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

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.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.