"The purpose of theater is not to fix the social fabric, not to incite the less perceptive to wake up and smell the coffee, not to preach to the converted about the delights (or the burdens) of a middle-class life. The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion - those three harness mates - is to inspire cleansing awe." From "Three Uses Of The Knife: On The Nature And Purpose Of Drama", by David Mamet.

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Comment by patrick jones on September 27, 2009 at 5:15
the purpose of religion is to control people's desires and lives and instigate hatred against others who do not believe the same- theatre should do the opposite

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