Patrice Pavis quotes

“New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.”
-- Patrice Pavis

Source : Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge

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“Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual.”
-- Patrice Pavis

Source : Patrice Pavis, Christine Shantz (1998). “Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis”, p.43, University of Toronto Press

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“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”
-- Patrice Pavis

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“Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.”
-- Patrice Pavis

Source : Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.47, Routledge

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“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.”

“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”

“STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”

“It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.”

“I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?”

“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”