Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
Interpretation
Theater can promote social change and inspire action on important issues.
Eve Ensler emphasizes the transformative power of theater as an art form that can effectively mobilize audiences toward social change. It possesses the ability to highlight critical social issues and inspire individuals to engage in activism, prompting a collective response that can lead to significant societal shifts.
In practice
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Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.
I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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