Audience Quote by Howard Barker Download Open image “A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,” — Howard Barker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Audience Certain Good Ordeals Play Puts Through
a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is… — Kate Arrington Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience. — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this… — Maurice Baring Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity;… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand.” — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive. — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you… — Angad Bedi Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
