Apartheid Quote by Saul Williams

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

— Eve Ensler

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or…

— Diane Paulus

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone…

— Asghar Farhadi

Before 1994, many South Africans used theater as a voice of protest against the government. But with the end of apartheid, like the artists…

— John Kani

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future,…

— Augusto Boal

THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY…

— Irina Bokova

The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened:…

— Tony Robinson

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations…

— Bertolt Brecht

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know.…

— Pearl Cleage

“The ‘role of the theatre’ is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as…

— Tom Stoppard

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another…

— Anonymous