Audience Quote by Anonymous

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

— C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

— C. S. Lewis

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all…

— Glenda Jackson

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience…

— Jules Feiffer

It's a very hard thing to explain when we sit with writers on our shows. But then if they show us a sketch, instinctively…

— Ant McPartlin

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do…

— Ethan Coen

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a…

— Jamie Parker

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much…

— Thomas Sadoski

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the…

— Orson Welles

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the…

— Cary Fukunaga

One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when…

— Nilo Cruz

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what…

— Constantin Stanislavski