Book Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca

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

— Tony Harrison

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice,…

— David Hume

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and…

— Abi Morgan

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

— Sarita Choudhury

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

— A. R. Ammons

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

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

“Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.”

— Philip Larkin

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words,…

— Abi Morgan

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't…

— Steve Earle

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

“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