Condensation Quotes
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks ... on screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. It isn't easy to do in the theater, but it's twice as hard in film.
Arthur Miller— On filming a television production of Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (15 September 1985)
I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.
— Interview with Time magazine, 2006
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.
antonin artaud— The Theatre of Cruelty, in The Theory of the Modern Stage (ed. Eric Bentley) (1968)
