I Think Theatre Should Always Be Somewhat

Responsibility Is Something Higher Than My Family, My Country, My Firm, My Success. Responsibility To The Order Of Being, Where, And Only Where, They Will Be Properly Judged.

It Cannot Suffice To Invent New Machines, New Regulations, New Institutions. It Is Necessary To Change And Improve Our Understanding Of The True Purpose Of What We Are And What We Do In The World. Only Such A New Understanding Will Allow Us To Develop New Models Of Behavior, New Scales Of Values And Goals, And Thereby Invest The Global Regulations, Treaties And Institutions With A New Spirit And Meaning.

The Experience I'm Talking About Has Given Me One Certainty: The Salvation Of This Human World Lies Nowhere Else Than In The Human Heart, In The Human Power To Reflect, In Human Meekness And In Human Responsibility. Without A Global Revolution In Human Consciousness, Nothing Will Change For The Better, And The Catastrophe Toward Which This World Is Headed Will Be Unavoidable.

None Of Us Know All The Potentialities That Slumber In The Spirit Of The Population, Or All The Ways In Which That Population Can Surprise Us When There Is The Right Interplay Of Events.

You Do Not Become A ''dissident'' Just Because You Decide One Day To Take Up This Most Unusual Career. You Are Thrown Into It By Your Personal Sense Of Responsibility, Combined With A Complex Set Of External Circumstances. You Are Cast Out Of The Existing Structures And Placed In A Position Of Conflict With Them. It Begins As An Attempt To Do Your Work Well, And Ends With Being Branded An Enemy Of Society.