- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre Quotes
On the stage, the craft, and the crowd.
Several of these come from performers describing theatre as where they started - repertory work that builds pressure tolerance, or early years doing puppet and mime theatre for competitions. Related: Acting.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Amateur
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
- Kings
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- Nov 07, 2020
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado. But our response to it depends on whether that violence is understood to be terrorism.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020