Character Quote by Isabelle Huppert

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

— Arca

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

— Brendan Coyle

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think…

— John Eaton

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

— Edward Bond

“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is…

— Tom Robbins

“The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions which the…

— M.I. Finley

The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy.

— Mary Beard

“[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity. Nowadays we have enough terror and pity…

— Christopher Durang

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre…

— Sam Wanamaker

When you watch films, there are so many different types of characters you want to portray.

— Rhea Chakraborty

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary…

— Michael Sheen