Accepting Quote by John Carroll

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive…

— John Carroll

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

— William James

In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by…

— C. D. Innes

Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be…

— Harold Pinter

“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path…

— John Michael Greer

Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so…

— John Lahr

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

— Zephyr Teachout

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

— Tadashi Suzuki

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind…

— Richard Hornby

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

— Constantin Stanislavski

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

— Sarah Bernhardt

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of…

— Thomas Jefferson