Construction Quote by Andrew Coyle Bradley

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may…

— Eugene Ionesco

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

— Simon McBurney

“We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of…

— Kakuzō Okakura

The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.

— Harry Hadden-Paton

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the…

— Edward Albee

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

— Tom Stoppard

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide…

— Glenda Jackson

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.

— Nick Saban