I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can engage or even enrage the audience, in none of them can the viewer’s response alter the artistic event itselfThat is why theatre is signing its own death warrant when it tries to play too safe. On the other hand, that is also the reason why, although its future often seems bleak, theatre will continue to live and to provoke.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.
Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.
An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. There’s a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you can’t do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participateI respond to heat. And blood. And humanity. The cold experience is not for me. I’ve always enjoyed all the real people in a room together in the theatre.
Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands that you connect with people; it demands a collective and social effort with the company and later with the audience.
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
The object is freedom.
The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.
If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
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