“Most theatre is still really bad”

“Most theatre is still really bad,” says Cock playwright Mike Bartlett, in this interview from The Guardian. He goes on, “It isn’t church. There’s nothing innately good about it. Most theatre is still really bad.”

Another choice quotation – “If you’re still going at theatre-in-the-1970s speed and your audience has been watching The Wire, then your play’s going to seem pretty slow.”

Read the whole piece here: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/nov/08/mike-bartlett-royal-court-cock