Theatre Quotes
For use in newsletters, season or fundraising brochures or emails, presentations--you name it.
| Category | Quote | First |
Last |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Directing |
In the most basic terms, the director is a production's primary storyteller. A play has only one plot (including subplots), but it contains many potential stories. The interpretation of the primary characters largely determines the story, so in effect, every production of the same play will inevitably tell a different tale. One of the most important functions a director fulfills is determining, with the actors and designers, which story to tell and how to tell it coherently. |
Michael | Bloom | Thinking Like a Director: A Practical Handbook |
| Directing |
Most directors work from inside out and from the outside in. They concentrate not only on the life of the characters but also on the play's structrual or external elements, including its central conflict, function, event, architecture, and suspense. |
Michael | Bloom | Thinking Like a Director: A Practical Handbook |
| Acting |
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it. |
Humphrey | Bogart | |
| General |
Theatre is like a virus: once you get it you can't get rid of it. |
Robin | Boisseau | http://www.hamptonu.edu/academics/schools/libarts/fparts/facultyandstaff.htm |
| Backstage |
Beat to fit, paint to match. |
Kate | Bolgrien | http://www.denagy.com/techiejokes/tjokes.html |
