In addition, he left a theater company, and a new vision for how he imagined theater, expressed in his many writings, particularly in his famous manifesto. This manifesto, which we ve included here, has shaken up and re-started the imaginations of many theater practitioners, particularly those who never gave up their love of the comic shtick, the beautiful phrase, the excessive emotion, the bright glitter of theatrical illusion. If not, you have set your ideals too low. The things one takes seriously are one s weaknesses. Just as many people who claim belief in God disprove it with their every act, so too there are those whose every deed, though they say there is no God, is an act of faith.
Evolution is a conscious process.
Bathos is that which is intended to be sorrowful but because of the extremity of its expression becomes comic. Pathos is that which is meant to be comic but because of the extremity of its expression becomes sorrowful. Some things which seem to be opposites are actually different degrees of the same thing. The comic hero thrives on his vices. The tragic hero is destroyed by his virtue.