#us

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#find #hate #i #incredibly #itself

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#because #dangerously #i #loathe #most

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#anything #arrive #certain #clear #death

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#badly #bassist #brother #cello #double

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#addictive #audience #becomes #between #energy

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#exciting #hit #new #new way #open

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#great #relief #vicariously #worst

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#biggest #biggest problem #illusion #place #problem

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how