Critical Quote by Moss Hart

The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is…

— Antonin Artaud

Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the…

— Antonin Artaud

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

— Antonin Artaud

The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms…

— Girish Karnad

“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

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

— Yasmina Reza

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer…

— Romain Rolland

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

— Hattie Morahan

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of…

— Tom Stoppard

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

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

— Sarah Ruhl