Action Quote by Ambrose Bierce

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English…

— Dan Stevens

Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the…

— Matt Ross

Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy…

— Henry Winter

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

— Robertson Davies

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to…

— George Bernard Shaw

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

— Arca

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically…

— Don DeLillo

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let…

— John Guare