Become Quote by Tom Stoppard

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

— Edward Bond

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text -…

— Simon McBurney

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

— Stella Adler

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

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

— Naseeruddin Shah

“The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions which the…

— M.I. Finley

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think…

— John Eaton

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

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

— Chris Chibnall

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

— Robert Lepage

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

— Betty Gilpin

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

— Sarah Ruhl