Air Quote by Eleanora Duse

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they…

— Eleanora Duse

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

— Edward Bond

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

“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

“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We…

— John Banville

“That’s the way Greek drama worked.”

— Josephine Angelini

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

— Karl Marx

We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days.…

— Dora Bakoyannis

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

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre…

— Sam Wanamaker

“I know I am playing out some tragic Greek play and I´m horrified, but the show must go on.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

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

— Arca