Changing reality Quote by Bertolt Brecht

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a…

— Bertolt Brecht

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the…

— Simon McBurney

Theatre is a more difficult visual medium than films. You need to hold the attention span of the audience without goofing up and be…

— Poonam Dhillon

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

— Augusto Boal

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

— Willem Dafoe

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

— Gavin Creel

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to…

— Arthur Miller

It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who…

— Brooks Atkinson

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

— Simon McBurney

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

— F. Sionil Jose

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison