What is the theatre?
The classic playwright, Lorca, typified the theatre as follows:
The theatre is the barometer that registers a country's greatness or decline. It is a school of
tears and laughter, a rostrum which gives a person the freedom to reveal old ambiguous
principles and to display with live examples the enduring norms of the human heart.
(free translation)
Athol Fugard
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