Theatre Quotes - Page 24

• Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Driving, Middle

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• I left my theatre the Loose Moose almost twenty years ago, and I hardly ever go back. Sometimes I go back to do a Mask class. They're doing more of this than I was doing when I left. Often it's the same improvisers but they're older. And now, they don't care if the theatre's full or not.

  Keith Johnstone

  Years, Class, Twenties

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If we did it better, they would come'. No. They don't come.

  Keith Johnstone

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

  Keith Johnstone

  Stuff, Audience, Rely

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room] last year, in 2014, but we still had the church pray over us , before the movie hit theatres, and the pastor was asking God to bless the film, and so we're very excited about what's happening .

  Stephen Kendrick

  War, Blessing, Past

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Prayer, People, Sound

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• With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're dealing in action, you can use different idioms to interpret and clarify something which is obscured in the reading and of course there are different kinds of play, there are mythological plays, there are what I call the dramatic sketches, direct political theatre which is virtually everybody, but I find that you can use the stage as a social vehicle, you know, which any kind of audience.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reading, Play, Political

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.

  Wole Soyinka

  Play, Printed Word, Numbers

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  Wole Soyinka

  Humanity, Sake, Facts

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• They're not so much fans of independent movies are they are of independent theatres. They like small theaters with a vague, septic smell. They're not wild about the newfangled theaters with the assigned seating.

  Nick Kroll

  Independent, Smell, Fans

  Source: variety.com

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• My dad moved to New York after he won "Soul Train" and the car and got settled in out there and was able to step right into Dance Theatre of Harlem and felt like he was in a show called "Omnibus" and "American Dance Machine."

  Mahershala Ali

  New York, Dad, Car

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• My mom was a sub teacher her whole life. My aunt was a teacher her whole life. So that wasn't hard to do. Performing in front of people started when I was a child. My mom ran a theatre. So we were around it. Getting up in front of people has never been an issue. So I think once you get over that part of it, I'm happy to teach anybody anything.

  Matt Snell

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

  Dan Amboyer

  Cameras, Able, Helping

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

  Claude-Michel Schonberg

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Voice, Different

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• The theatre for me is much more satisfying as an actor because you are working in front of a living, breathing, throbbing, gasping, laughing and hopefully applauding audience. And the immediate connection you get with that audience is very satisfying.

  George Takei

  Breathing, Laughing, Connections

  Source: www.scifiheaven.net

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• I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.

  Constance Backhouse

  Taken, People, Segregation

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they had segregation, whites-only washrooms and hotels. We think we were the capital of the Underground Railroad, we were the place to where the slaves escaped, we were a much better country. But in fact, some of the black people in Canada at the time said, 'It's actually much easier in the United States because you know which hotels, restaurants, theatres won't let you in because the signs are there. In Canada, you never know.'

  Constance Backhouse

  Country, Depressing, Pride

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You had actors that came from live theatre and it felt like you're doing a play. Every time we did a three or four minute walk-and-talk in the West Wing, the exhilaration of going on stage would be a part of it.

  Richard Schiff

  Like You

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• Live theatre for children is right up there in importance with reading aloud. It used to be part of our heritage many years ago and we've lost it and we've lost everything to screens in this culture and we need to bring it back.

  Rosemary Wells

  Children, Reading, Culture

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.

  Alan Ruck

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In my years of working in theatre and TV I've learnt that my main skill is not the instrumental playing but the idea of what to play and my interest for so many kinds of music. Often people ask me to contribute to projects when they don't stay in just one genre. I feel more like a composer who just has to play his own things.

  Gregor Schwellenbach

  People, Kind, Composer

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

  Peter Weir

  Together, Hanging Out

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of great theatres, art cinemas, millions of free books distributed by the governments, public poetry readings, free public lectures, and all sorts of bookstores are open until early mornings, exhibitions reacting to the needs and sorrows of society, concerts of engaged music.

  Andre Vltchek

  Art, Morning, Latin

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Please just look at those Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan... are there any other cities on earth, of that size, with such an absolute chronic lack of culture, and institutions that are supposed to make people think? Like theatres, archives, grand libraries, concert halls, art cinemas, progressive bookstores... There is nothing here.

  Andre Vltchek

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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