Theatre Quotes | Sayings Celebrating Theatre Arts, Drama

The magic of theatre is not just in the performers, but also in the audience, who bring their own experiences and perspectives to the story.

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Theatre is not just a stage, but a mirror of life, reflecting the human experience in all its complexity.

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Theatre is not just about entertainment, it’s about connection, reflection and transformation.

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The beauty of theatre is not only in the words and the movement, but also in the silence and stillness it creates.

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The true power of theatre is not just in the stories it tells, but in the emotions it evokes and the empathy it inspires.

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Theatre is a form of art, but also a form of activism, giving voice to the voiceless and amplifying under-represented stories.

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
– Victor Hugo

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But theatre is also a public event, a spectacle or a show, attempting to please or amaze the audience by a display of exceptional stage achievements, that is, special performances. In that sense, like sporting events or the circus, theatre serves what I shall call the performance function: it satisfies our natural desire to achieve or witness something extraordinary.
– Jean Alter

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
– Oscar Wilde

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Broadway’s mountain. Tough sledding on the way up – a toboggan on the way down.
– Walter Winchell

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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society.
– Yasmina Reza

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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
– Martha Graham

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Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.
– Eleanor Catton

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In theatre, you’ve got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven’t, you know you’ve almost lost them.
– Om Puri

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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
– W. R. Inge

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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
– Andy Goldsworthy

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Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.
– Clive Swift

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The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.
– Tennessee Williams

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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
– Arthur Miller

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It was only in the theatre that I lived.
– Oscar Wilde

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