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I think the American
theater reflects
America
now, as everything that
happens is beginning to reflect
America
— one-percent
America
. The fact is that our values
have somehow gotten very skewed, and we’ve gone back — if
we ever left it — to the notion that success is the highest
value in this country. Not integrity, not quality, not
intelligence, not spirit, not soul. Success, financial
success. And this is a heartbreaker because this country was
unlike any country, with the possible exception of ancient
Greece
; it had the chance to approach
an ideal state, and it’s gone. We’ve lost it. Success
seems to be the one criterion of achievement.
-- Robert
Brustein
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