Believe Quote by Joe Mantello

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

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

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

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because…

— Sheila Heti

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

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never…

— Stephen Rea

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

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

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

— Sarah Kane

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

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce…

— Nigel Hawthorne