“ as an individual one lies, one lies to oneself. One leaves oneself at home when one goes to the theater, one renounces the right to one’s own tongue and choice, to one’s taste, even to one’s courage as one has it and exercises it between one’s own four walls against both God and man. No one brings along the finest senses of his art to the theater, nor does the artist who works for the theater. ”
 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882). copy citation