#heat

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#beyond #dialogue #drama #got #grew

One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre. ↗

— David Soul

#certain #church #community #football #football team

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century. ↗

— David Soul

#century #important #into #move #theatre

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#another #appeared #barn #brought #clean

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#audience #being #dynamic #environment #expresses

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 it the most social of the various art forms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#art forms #audience #base #because #both

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#fingertips #makes #something #theater #tingle

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#best #come #first #first of all #i

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#cinema #classical #compare #latter #like

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that? ↗