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“I do pray and hope that physical theatre finds its support and status, because the people in modern theatre are ruthless and even malevolent to anything outside their own limited range and they won’t give it space. There is no notion of doing this kind of work, of even doing exercises in it. There are no exercises, classes, anything, really developing techniques of physical representation in any of these big theatres. They don’t want it, they don’t like it and they really can’t deal with it. It’s another language. Their language is the language of oppression.”

— Steven Berkoff in ‘Berkoff on Berkoff’