Auditoriums Quote by Declan Donnellan

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

— Declan Donnellan

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer…

— Romain Rolland

I've witnessed the survival of the theatre several times when it was meant to be dying.

— Harriet Walter

The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms…

— Girish Karnad

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do…

— Zelda Fichandler

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough…

— John Steinbeck

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can…

— Kenneth Cranham

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

— Ralph Fiennes

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

— Simon McBurney