Richard Foreman
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"Richard Foreman" is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the "Ontological-Hysteric Theater".

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Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

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If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

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I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

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I make theater for myself, and if someone else can derive some value from it, fine.

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Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

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So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

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You see, I thought of myself as making minimalist art like the music of Lamonte Young, or the paintings of Frank Stella.

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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

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I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

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