Quote • WILL SELF • Suspending Disbelief

Will Self in 2013 [Wikipedia]

“At the best of times, as a professional suspender, I find it hard to suspend disbelief. It’s never Goneril for me – always a girl who went to RADA. I heard Fiona Shaw say on the radio the other night that theatre audiences have an essential willingness to make believe anything. I can understand this, because with the bulk of theatre you have to make believe that it’s any good whatsoever.”

Writer and reviewer Will Self in The Independent, 26 May 2007.

Originally published on R&V 26-05-07