Others' thoughts on theatre usually say it better than I ever could. But judge for yourself.

"Act from the depth of your feeling imagination. Act for celebration, for search, for grieving, for worship, to express that desolate sensation of wandering through the howling wilderness. Don't worry about art. Do these things and it will be art."

"Then perhaps, the actor is a messenger, searching for the human passions of a character, deep into history, deep into imagination, and poetry, far into the desert. As a concientious and loyal messenger, he shoud return, clad in magnificent tatters, and tell of what he saw and what he has lived during his voyage. He should tell this to the very audience which invested him with this marvelous mission: to use simple and splendid designs, inorder to bring life to a human being among us here and now."