I am sure that it can be one of the decisive weapons of our time." Osborne believes that the theater must be based on caring how people feel and live. Although he concedes that there is room for many kinds of theater, he is most concerned with "the one that offers a vital, emotional dynamic for ordinary people, that breaks down class barriers, and all the many obstacles set in the way of feeling." Correspondingly, Osborne holds the firm opinion that "we need a new feeling as much as we need a new language.
. . . Out of the feeling will come the language." In a 1958 interview with Robert Muller of the Daily Mail, Osborne clarified further his mission to make people feel: "I want people to see life through my mirror, to feel my image. If it gets as far as that, if they feel, then I've made my contribution. What they do with those feelings afterwards is somebody else's business. Politicians. Journalists. Those sort of people." Given these intentions, it is understandable that Osborne found that the theater itself presented (as critic Gabriel Gersh has suggested) "a brave enough cause, and he embarked on it with a clear image of the enemy and simple plan of action.
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