The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
Tennessee WilliamsTag: people problems theatre office jobs
I switched to thoughts of the play. It was by far the healthiest item to concentrate on. Rehearsals were only days away; there is something wildly exciting about a company assembling for the first time on stage. There is also something strangely sexy about it. I can't pin it down, there just is.
James Kirkwood Jr.Tag: theatre
The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge.
Kathe KojaTag: theatre
When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.
Meg HowreyTag: art dance theatre performance
God is fucking stealing souls again!
Stephen Adly GuirgisTag: god jesus satan play religious theatre
The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies, to be deceived, drugged, incarcerated, stupefied. This is partly because the audience is also a court against which there is no appeal.
Iris MurdochTag: acting actors theatre audiences
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.
Iris MurdochTag: humanity glory theatre transience
This feeling of power, it's happiness to sit in a cottage by the Danube among six women who think I'm semi-idiot, and to know that in Paris, the headquarters of intelligence, 500 people are sitting dead-quiet in the auditorium and are foolish enough to expose their brains to my powers of suggestion. Some revolt! But many will go away with my spores in their gray matter. They will go home pregnant with the seed of my soul, and they will breed my brood.
August StrindbergTag: power theatre strindberg
All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....
Susan CooperTag: theater philosophical theatre inspirational-life
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
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