“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought.”

— Romain Rolland

Le Théâtre du peuple (1903)
Context: Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre.... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

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French author 1866–1944

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Maurice Denis (1870–1943) French painter

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