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Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.
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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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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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Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.
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I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.
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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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My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.