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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about read more
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's read more
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical read more
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.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to read more
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what read more
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve read more
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
The center of the stage is where I am.
The center of the stage is where I am.