Quotes About Theatre

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism

I had a fascination with 3D that goes back to the View-Master. I'd always dreamed of making a film in 3D. It's like a combination of theatre and film. There's something 3D gives to a movie that takes you to another land. Working with RealD creatively was a liberating experience. Thank you RealD for allowing us to make something like Hugo .

It is also clear that the original performances, in public celebrations of all kinds, from religious festivals to the 'after-party' of triumphs, were unruly, raucous occasions, attracting a wide cross section of the population of the city, including women and slaves. This is in sharp contrast to classical Athens, where the theatre audience, though larger than at Rome, was probably restricted to male citizens, unruly or not.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ratansi was still in London; Nitya had been riding with him every day in Richmond Park, going to theatres with him and drives in his Rolls-Royce, though evidently not enjoying himself, for, as he (Nitya) wrote to Madame de Manziarly, 'Pleasures taken seriously become miserable duties.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

I know that," he said. "But what are you doing? You're giving me an actor playing a drunk. I'm paying you to be a drunk. You're trying to talk slurred and walk crooked. A real drunk is trying to speak clearly and walk straight." My wise and wily repertory theatre director had summed up movie acting in one line, and I remember it and use it to this day. My

Sartre wrote after describing his epiphany that his life was nothing but a play, and he an actor in it

I never cry at the theatre. It seems to me that I feel things far too deeply, too deep down in my heart, to---to splash on top!

If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.

I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

Je pleure et c'est encore dans un théâtre que je pleure. Mes pleurs sont entendus par une foule formée de spectateurs de moi-même, qui expie avec moi les liquides engendrés par la faiblesse [...]

I am very fond of the theatre. If I have only a kopeck in my pocket, I always go there. Most of my fellow-officials are uneducated boors, and never enter a theatre unless one throws free tickets at their head.

La littérature est un théâtre à ciel ouvert qui permet de transformer les êtres les plus simples en héros universels, loin des parterres présomptueux. Conrad, Le Voyageur de l'inquiétude

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

On notera par amusement le privilège commun qui associe fortuitement ces trois termes : la mélancolie , après tout, ne métamorphose-t-elle pas le corps en théâtre sur lequel l'âme joue ses drames universels dans une terrible démocratie du malheur, sans privilège de caste ni de rang ?

era realmente demasiado agradable, casi su número favorito entre todos los representantes en el escenario de su gran teatro interior, porque comunicaba la maravillosa sensación de agotamiento placentero que sigue a todo acto verdaderamente grande y heroico.

He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually he managed to get control of his breathing. His excited heart beat more steadily; the pounding of the waves inside him subsided slowly. And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusky reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened, and he entered. The next performance in the theatre of his soul was beginning.

The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It's a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it's more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.

The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It's a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it's more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all is for an act of theatre to be engaged.

Theatre is always a self-destructive art, and it is always written on the wind.