Robert Edmond Jones Quotes

• A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Environment, Theater, Stage

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre”, p.3, Taylor & Francis

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• There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Play, Theatre, Actors

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.4, Routledge

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• The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  School, Done, Study

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• Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Art, Practice, Design

  Robert Edmond Jones, Delbert Unruh (1992). “Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones”, Amadeus Press

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• The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Art, Design, Theatre

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre”, p.8, Taylor & Francis

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• We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Dream, Lying, Independent

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge

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