Drama Quote by David Hume

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

— Elia Kazan

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

— Tony Harrison

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or…

— Augusto Boal

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do know this:…

— August Wilson

“That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism…

— Samuel Johnson

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

— A. R. Ammons

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by…

— Paul Watzlawick

“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They…

— James P. Carse