Every night Quote by Iris Murdoch

“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

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I…

— Iris Murdoch

The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the end, the…

— Cat Stevens

“This is not a place where theater is a tool for telling stories about God. This is a stage where the craft of theater…

— Aaron Hartzler

“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to…

— Terry Eagleton

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.”

— Iris Murdoch

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

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

— Anonymous

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety,…

— Arthur Miller