Act Quote by Timothy West

Even our early audiences were very polite. It felt like playing in our living room. I remember the audiences changing in front of me.…

— Bill Ward

I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was…

— Tracy Letts

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence…

— Timothy West

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but…

— Garry Hynes

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business,…

— William Butler Yeats

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

— Walter Hill

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

— Adam Baldwin

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and…

— Anonymous

“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

“What is a play? A public holiday? A lesson? A pastime? In the first place it might seem that a play ought to be…

— Alfred Jarry

It's extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the…

— Mahesh Bhatt