Tim Crouch performs in 'my arm'.
What is your definition of misery?
Bureaucracy
What is your greatest fear?
Death by bureaucracy
What was your first “real” job working in theatre?
Footing a ladder.
Are you a good at waiting tables?
Never had to do it
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
King Canute
Who are your favorite heroes of theatre?
The audience
Who are your favorite heroes in real life?
The audience
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Piety
What do you consider the most underrated virtue?
Tolerance
Your favorite painter?
Chagall
Your favorite musician?
Bjork
Your favorite playwright?
Caryl Churchill
When and where were you happiest?
Pretending to be a monkey diving off cliffs into the sea in Greece with my family this summer.
What do you most value in colleagues?
Honesty and intelligence and humour
Is there a class in which you wish you had paid more attention?
Sex education
If you didn’t work in theatre, what would you do?
Teach.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Never having had the s**t kicked out of me.
What you’d like to be the world’s best at?
Windsurfing
What book would you read more than once?
How to Windsurf
Who would play you in a movie of your life? Why?
Bruce Willis. We share hair.
What sports teams do you follow?
None
Where would you like to spend a vacation?
By those cliffs in Greece
What car would you like to be seen driving around in?
A VW camper van
What book is currently on your nightstand?
Beckett’s Dying Words by Christopher Ricks
If you could see a great production of a classic play, what would it be?
I can’t see productions of King Lear because the one in my head is definitive…
If you could travel back in time to visit or live in any time in history, when would it be?
Elizabethan England
What actor will see in any project they do?
British actor Mark Rylance. He has magic powers.
Thank you to Tim Crouch (tag archive).
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Last week i saw Tim Crouch doing his play, The Arm and it was “uplifting”. Actually what was weird about this is that I hold my hand often up to the mirror in my car as I am driving and I try to see how long I can do this. But my reasons are not compulsive and there’s a kind of weird method to this madness. I experience mirrors all the time in terms of echoic connects and they are amazing and so I have this kind of mystic feeling when I do this that I am “receiving” and that more will come. And they do, anyhow.
I do perceive, in this particular play, the OUCH of it. The ouch in crouch?
His play is unusual and it’s disturbingly unusual but that’s good, it reminds me of so many other plays of this genre, kind of a mix of the surreal, the real, and definitely The Twilight Zone.
He has an unusual perspective on life and it’s kind of, weirdly, refreshing.