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Quotes about theater
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. (Light Judith)
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake. (Light Judith)
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. (Light Judith)
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. (Light Judith)
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. (Light Judith)
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. (Light Judith)
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. (Light Judith)
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. (Light Judith)
I just love, I love, I love movies. (Light Judith)
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. (Light Judith)
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. (Light Judith)
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner. (Light Judith)
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts. (Light Judith)
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising. (Light Judith)
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. (Light Judith)
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. (Light Judith)
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. (Light Judith)
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. (Light Judith)
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten. (Light Judith)
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings. (Light Judith)
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. (Light Judith)
It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times. (Light Judith)
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. (Light Judith)
Good drama must be drastic. (Light Judith)
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. (Light Judith)
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