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I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

Richard Foreman

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Richard Foreman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 10
Playwright
Theatrical Director
New York City
New York
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Desperately
People
Unhappy
Missing
Anything
Music
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Make
Life
Theatrical

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