Furthermore the spectator is encouraged to draw certain conclusions about how the world works. If he behaves in such and such a way, he hears, he must reckon with this or that result. Obviously, artistic appreciation of this sort is not without effects. It weakens the good instincts and strengthens the bad, it contradicts true experience and spreads misconceptions, in short it perverts our picture of the world. There is no play and no theatrical performance which does not in some way or other affect the dispositions and conceptions of the audience.
Art is never without consequences, and indeed that says something for it.
Theater needs to take responsibility for its actions. It needs to promote active, rather than passive, spectatorship. Theater needs to make its audience ask vital questions about that which the audience takes for granted. And above all, theater needs to stop being boring and start to be relevant and interesting. Because right now we are bored with theater and would rather go see a band.