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I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in Hamlet did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history.
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Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.
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My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring.
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Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.
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People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.
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Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
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My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.