I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
I really enjoy working on adaptations.
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.