Theatre is not just a stage, but a mirror of life, reflecting the human experience in all its complexity.
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.
Theatre is not just about entertainment, it’s about connection, reflection and transformation.
The beauty of theatre is not only in the words and the movement, but also in the silence and stillness it creates.
The true power of theatre is not just in the stories it tells, but in the emotions it evokes and the empathy it inspires.
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. – Victor Hugo
Theatre is a form of art, but also a form of activism, giving voice to the voiceless and amplifying under-represented stories.
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
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. – Martha Graham
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. – W. R. Inge
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. – Oscar Wilde
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. – Yasmina Reza
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. – Oscar Wilde
Broadway’s mountain. Tough sledding on the way up – a toboggan on the way down. – Walter Winchell
In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect. – Tristan Bernard
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
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life. – Arthur Miller
The play was a great success, but the audience was a failure. – Oscar Wilde
Of course we all come to the theatre with baggage. The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn’t matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released – well that is what theatre can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens. – Vanessa Redgrave
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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