Quotes by Theatre Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business. Anton Chekhov arms theatre play My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me. Antonia Thomas theatre musical father Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them. Antonin Artaud distance theatre danger To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater. Antonin Artaud break-through theatre order Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. Antonin Artaud cruelty diligence theatre The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid. Antonin Artaud passionate theatre order Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols. Antonin Artaud theatre battle eye There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. Antonin Artaud brothels theatre Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do. Antonio Banderas theatre careers different I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now. Antony Sher theatre sorry opportunity I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in. Ariane Mnouchkine theatre hate inspirational Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it. Aristotle theatre soul character Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain. Arnold Bennett theatre reading people Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. Arthur C. Clarke magic theatre technology When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world. Arthur Darvill puppets theatre world The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you. Arthur Darvill elements london theatre I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. Arthur Miller serious-business theatre men The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. Arthur Miller fascinating theater theatre The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. Arthur Miller consciousness theatre people Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise. Arthur Miller crafts theatre humanity «1234567891011»