Quotes About Theatre

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a great idea. He put a second reader on stage. Now you had a 'play' –the first drama in the world.

surroundings, and the venture was not a great success. One flop followed another. Not even the presence of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at a command performance of The Crossways on 8 December 1902 could save the situation.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.

My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn't as much into the comic book stuff. So it's fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me.

Gujarati movies and theatre will never take a backseat for me. In fact, I want to do Marathi films too.

I saw 'Hairspray' in New York and had one of the best nights I've ever had in the theatre.

Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

Do you know, I have no idea how I got 'The Avengers'? I'd left the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I was one of a long list of girls, and got it on my audition.

She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier.

Now it was time to move, and, as a woman gathers her things together, her cloak, her gloves, her opera-glasses, and gets up to go out of the theatre into the street, she rose from the sofa and went to Peter.

Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, "Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?

the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

It is a hopeless endeavour to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.

In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.