A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Dario FoRead
My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the connection between theater and political expression.
Dario Fo emphasizes that his work in theater is not just entertainment, but a platform for political commentary and resistance against societal injustices. Through his performances, he engages with crucial issues, reflecting his belief that art can be a powerful vehicle for social change.
In practice
During a panel discussion on the role of art in activism, one might cite this quote to illustrate how theater can reflect political struggles.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.
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