Abstract Quote by Wole Soyinka

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

— Michael O'Keefe

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but…

— Wole Soyinka

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that…

— Frank Stella

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the…

— Robert Lepage

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably…

— David Mamet

I think a play can do almost anything, because it's also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In a movie…

— Jules Feiffer

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

— Karl Kraus

In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be…

— Henry James