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Theater
Quotes
- "You need three things
in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must
give something" - Kenneth Haigh
- "Theater is, of course,
a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope
to improve theater." - W. R. Inge
- "The wide and universal
theatre...All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely
players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his
time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." - Shakespeare
(1564-1616) As You Like It,II.7.137
- "All of the arts, poetry,
music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together
create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its
masterpiece, free man" - Bernard Berenson
- "In the theater the
audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect"
- Tristan Bernard
- "My playground was
the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a
young girl, that's pretty seductive." - Gwyneth Paltrow
- "No theater could sanely
flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening
on the stage and what was happening in the world." - Kenneth Tynan
- "For a minute or perhaps
two-and this is a long time-the theater makes man better and happier
on this earth." - Jean Jacques Gautier
- "The primary function
of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience.
It is to serve talent. The primary function of a theater is not to please
itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."
- Robert Brustein
- "The novel is more
of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout." - Robert Holman
- "The theater, which
is in no thing, but makes use of everything-gestures, sounds, words,
screams, light, darkness-rediscovers itself at precisely the point where
the mind requires a language to express its manifestations....To break
through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the
theatre." - Antonin Artaud, The Theater and its Double
- "Coughing in the theater
is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism." - Alan Jay Lerner
- "The stage is not merely
the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to
life." - Oscar Wilde
- "The virtue of dress
rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists
and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience
is almost expurgated of idiots." - Alfred Jarry
- "I submit all my plays
to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing
clearly." - Howard Barker
- "I want to give the
audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and
they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion
and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning:
when it becomes a social act." - Orson Welles
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Theatre
- Form of Art
Origins
of Theatre
Elements
of Theatre
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