Deals Quote by David Ives

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage,…

— Martin McDonagh

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

— Alice Ripley

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who…

— Juliet Stevenson

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

— Hattie Morahan

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

— Sarah Ruhl

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

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

— Tony Harrison