Asks Quote by Wallace Shawn

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to…

— George Bernard Shaw

“What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play,…

— Sherwood Smith

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

“To play is, in some sense, actively to make your own fun. Players are entertaining themselves, whether the play is peekaboo, cards, tennis, or…

— D. Brent Laytham

“I want you, Sancho, to think well and to have a good opinion of plays, and to be equally well-disposed toward those who perform…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“To be in “play” in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless…

— Fernando Flores

In a play you can witness your audience live, understand how they feel. It lets you evaluate yourself and measure your growth.

— Asrani

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say…

— Edward Albee

“In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that…

— Jean Racine

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do…

— Ian Bogost