Circumstances Quote by Harry Hadden-Paton

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

— Voltaire

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

A play visibly represents pure existing.

— Thornton Wilder

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

— Ian Bogost

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

“We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

— Dallas Willard

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

— Jamie Parker

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

— Ben Schnetzer

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have…

— David Mamet