30 Quotes by Tim Crouch

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.

In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.