Dramatic Quote by Patrick Marber

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely…

— Arthur Miller

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'm interested in the moments where the audience is restless. I'm interested in the moments where they lean in and become incredibly engaged: the…

— Lynn Nottage

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the…

— Edward Albee

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

— Marsha Mason

It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it,…

— Anonymous

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating.…

— George C. Wolfe

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

— David Ives

I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in…

— Philippe Falardeau