Actor Quote by Eleanora Duse

We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who…

— Eleanora Duse

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

— Eleanora Duse

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

“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is…

— Tom Robbins

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

— Edward Bond

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

— Arca

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the eyes or…

— Riley Redgate

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is…

— Edward Bond

“The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions which the…

— M.I. Finley

I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really…

— Cormac McCarthy

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared…

— Lee Hall