I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.
Timberlake WertenbakerTags: theater
Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: humor politics food dramatic murder nostalgia satire funny mysteries theater secrets drama acting actors theatre plays opera dinner fantastic i-love-the-theater i-love-the-theatre opera-house playwrights theatre-of-the-absurd
That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: writing theater mystery acting actors writing-tips playwright directing directors playwrights playwrighting
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: writing murder theater mystery acting writing-tips playwright directing playwriting playwrights books-for-writers
The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written.
Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep.
He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.
Tags: inspiration creativity theater acting playwright directing inspiration-for-writers playwrights playwrighting
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: love writing murder sex theater mystery acting seduction girlfriend directing playwriting
And it's a preference, a long-held preference, what you might call a 'habit of mind'—putting words into other people's mouths. And those people are played by people whose profession is to pretend to be other people. For which purpose, they adopt gestures, voices, intonations, even sexual attitudes not their own. On stage, they affect to be ravished and amused by someone whom they will, afterwards, run a mile to avoid having dinner with. Likewise, they spit torrents of abuse against an actor who later, later, in the softness of the night, they will share their bed with.
David HareTags: theater
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.
But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
Tags: change interview theater playwriting
Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.
Gaetano PescheA few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of the void. It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own. It seemed now to play itself, he and his fellow actors aiding it with their parts. When the curtain fell on the last scene he heard the void filled with applause and, through a rift in a side scene, saw the simple body before which he had acted magically deformed, the void of faces breaking at all points and falling asunder into busy groups.
James JoyceTags: theater
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