the timboucher experience

I really like this quote. It’s by Lenora Inez Brown, and I found it in an article about theatre & religion:

“I’ve always believed that religion and theatre have an almost interchangeable effect on the soul. When a play or production works, and I mean really works, one’s spirit is uplifted and all that is confused seems clearer. Call it a cliché, but the experience of great theatre is religious. Characters speak to you—to the deepest part of your soul—and somehow the words make it easier to face the troubles of life and appreciate the happy moments more deeply.”

The only folly I see here is in claiming that feeling is exclusive to theatre, or to any one particular art form. I think this is ultimately the function and goal of all human art.

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