30 Quotes by Tim Crouch

'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.

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

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.

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.

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

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

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

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