02/06/2015
"As I grew up, I realized it wasn't just art I'd fallen in love with. Sure, art was there to confront all the smugness and unoriginality in society--to upset everyone's applecart. But upsetting the applecart of art: that's what I was after. I dreamed of people entering theaters, not knowing what might happen--knowing only that all their expectations would be assaulted. I dreamed not of entertaining an audience, but of attacking it. And I dreamed of audiences heroic enough to survive." --Lee Blessing, from the play "Chesapeake"
Many arts organisations have become dinosaurs, failing to evolve to respond to the needs of new work, delegates at the Australian Theatre Forum were warned.