The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The theater allows time for human problems that would be rejected in business.
- In plain terms
- Art gives attention to people and problems that jobs do not.
- What can you take from it?
- Art provides value where efficiency might not.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do we value art?
- What gets rejected in the workplace?
Another view
It frames theater as separate from practical reality too sharply.
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