Admire Quote by Harold Pinter

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone…

— Tony Kushner

Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be…

— Harold Pinter

I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently…

— Cressida Bonas

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when…

— Frank Rich

Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so…

— John Lahr

“All theatre, by virtue of its being a cultural construct and therefore ideologically inscribed, is political.”

— Mark S Weinberg

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's…

— Tony Kushner

I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays.

— Lynn Nottage

I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational…

— Melvyn Bragg

In fact, it is more interesting to play someone whose politics is not in sync with my own politics because then I have to…

— Rasika Dugal

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative…

— John Lahr

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward