Play Quote by Rosalyn Drexler

A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do…

— Edward Albee

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

— Anonymous

I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For…

— Ian Bogost

A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls…

— Patricia Zipprodt

Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the…

— Tom Stoppard

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop…

— Abi Morgan

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have…

— Arthur Miller

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker