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INTERVIEWER
What do you think of a certain critic’s statement that the success of a really contemporary play, like Marat/Sade, makes Tennessee Williams and his genre obsolete?
MILLER
Ridiculous. No more than that Tennessee’s remarkable success made obsolete the past before him. There are some biological laws in the theater which can’t be violated. It should not be made into an activated chess game. You can’t have a theater based upon anything other than a mass audience if it’s going to succeed. The larger the better. It’s the law of the theater. In the Greek audience fourteen thousand people sat down at the same time, to see a play. Fourteen thousand people! And nobody can tell me that those people were all readers of the New York Review of Books!
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| Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Aeschylus, Pierre Corneille, Euripides, Homer, Henrik Ibsen, Jonathan Miller, Jean Baptiste Molière, Eugene O'Neill, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Lee Strasberg, Peter Weiss |
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