Action Quote by Simon McBurney

Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows…

— Augusto Boal

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…

— Eleanor Catton

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

— Stella Adler

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

“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

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

— Constantin Stanislavski

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life…

— Stella Adler

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