Charles Ludlam Quotes

• The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

  Charles Ludlam

  Beautiful, Lying, Theater

  "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".

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• Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

  Charles Ludlam

  Years, Sublime, Ridiculous

  Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

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• You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.

  Charles Ludlam

  Lows, Mockery, Ideals

  Charles Ludlam (1989). “The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam”, Harper Perennial

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• If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

  Charles Ludlam

  Lows, Mockery, Ideals

  Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

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