About Quote by Simon McBurney

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words,…

— Abi Morgan

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know…

— Robert Lepage

With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're…

— Wole Soyinka

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

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

— Tony Harrison

I've come from theatre and you have different productions of a text in theatre. It's not unusual.

— Chris Chibnall

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

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is…

— Robert Lepage

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call…

— Wole Soyinka

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

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little…

— Sheila Heti