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Theatre Quotes
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- " Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word ‘inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it's really broad."
- Ginni Rometty
Source: Ginni Rometty, Executive Chairman of IBM: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/former-ibm-ceo-diversity-and-discomfort-good-ideas
- " Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness."
- Ola Joseph
Source: https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewnews.asp?AuthorID=793
- " It’s important to talk about being “anti-racist” and to appreciate when our communities want to work against problems. And it’s important to check the boxes and attend workshops, to develop a shared language with our colleagues and community that includes shared reflections on our acculturation and roles in society. But transformative change requires that we then apply those learnings, that we engage in active, creative problem solving that goes beyond the lecture and requires us to act in new ways. The humanities—as a discipline, as a creative space, as an experience we all share—can be where we begin to take those actions. This isn’t just an exercise in imagination."
- Cerceo, Zimmerman, DeLisser
Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8904695/
- " Art does not merely reflect society; it shapes cultural narratives and influences societal perceptions. In this context, diversity and inclusion in the arts sector are not just lofty ideals but essential components for a thriving and truly representative artistic landscape."
- Yixuan Wang
Source: https://francis-press.com/uploads/papers/Xdd29kF2fH3y4w9iAXfDziP4G3w0RhMP2UqEecx5.pdf
- " The Asian American theater East West Players created the 51% Preparedness Plan for the American Theatre in 2015 because American theater was not 'prepared to welcome new audiences of diverse backgrounds; at the vast majority of theaters, the subscriber base is overwhelmingly white and rapidly aging. . . . We depend on the diverse, next generation of artists and theatre practitioners to continue the advancement of live performance. That is the only way we will have a chance of cultivating new theatre audiences. It is a survival imperative.'"
- Arts Consulting Group
Source: https://artsconsulting.com/arts-insights/inclusion-diversity-equity-and-access-why-now-in-the-arts-and-culture-sector/
- " Arts and culture events can bring communities together, fostering a sense of belonging and social cohesion, where people from different backgrounds can connect, build new relationships, and create a shared sense of identity. The arts can help preserve and celebrate the cultural heritage of marginalized communities by ensuring that artistic expression, traditions, languages, and histories are not lost and are passed on to future generations."
- Americans for the Arts
Source: https://ww2.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/ARTS%20%2B%20EQUITY%20%26%20DIVERSITY.pdf
- " When the theater is a place where all people are included, diversity is celebrated, and everyone has equal access to the theatrical experience. The theater can become an even more powerful force for social change and a beacon of hope in a world that is too often divided. It is up to us as audiences and stakeholders to ensure this potential is realized, so the theater will become a space where everyone is valued, and a great range of experiences are presented and documented. Then the theater of the future will take shape and the history books will include those stories."
- A. Prescod-Lovell
Source: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/chasing-the-dream/2023/06/elevating-blackness-and-ethnic-representation-in-theater/
- " A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone."
- Sundar Pichai
Source: Google Diversity Report, 2017
- " Diversity is having a seat at the table, inclusion is having a voice, and belonging is having that voice be heard."
- Liz Fosslien
Source: "What Is Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging?" Nasdaq News, Oct 21, 2019
- " Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance."
- Verna Myers
Source: 2015 Women’s Leadership Forum video, YouTube
- " If you gauge how you’re doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you’re up a creek. You can’t do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work… And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, tell the story."
- Billy Porter
Source: Vanity Fair, April 11, 2013
- " Theater and storytelling has the power to change lives."
- Liesl Liesl
Source: Forbes Magazine article, Jun 29, 2016
- " Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now."
- Peter Brook
Source: Peter Brook/“Does Nothing Come from Nothing?” Ernest Jones Lecture at The Edward Lewis Theatre, London, 1994.
- " You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. That is art: to give all you have,"
- Michael Chekhov
- " I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. [Often erroneously attributed to Oscar Wilde, this statement comes from an interview in the Paris Review's winter 1956 issue]"
- Thornton Wilder
Source: https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read/our-town
- " All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
- Stephen Sondheim
Source: https://www.operams.org/stages
- " [The wonderful thing about theater is that] you get to keep doing it again. You get to keep finding something new. Sometimes I do send myself on a quest, when you feel stuck or it doesn't feel fresh [after multiple performances]. I'll set myself off on a quest to search for something or to focus on something. Or just because my day was different, that shifts my perspective. So I never feel like, "Okay, nailed it." No. Now, I don't tend to think about what I want an audience to get. I tend to think about what the character needs to get. "
- Donna Murphy
Source: Nothing Like a Dame, by Eddie Shapiro (Oxford University Press)
- " It's a funny thing to discover that you can stand there and demand the attention of the audience and give them everything you've got, and share with them the great moments that are there in the role. It took me awhile to really do that."
- Angela Lansbury
Source: Nothing Like a Dame, by Eddie Shapiro (Oxford University Press)
- " I’ve never really given that up or gone beyond that idea of being a translator, of explaining people to each other, of being a conduit of mutual emotional understanding. I’m only being a little grandiose when I say I think that’s why I’ve always been drawn to characters who are difficult to translate to other people, prissy women, disagreeable women, women whose motives are easily misconstrued, women who are hard to love." Developing that capacity for empathy, Streep said, has given her the ability to “feel the exquisite living pleasure of transmitting (a character’s) feelings to an audience. It’s an actor’s singular joy."
- Meryl Streep
Source: princeton.edu/news
- " The play's the thing" refers to a famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act 2, scene 2), where Hamlet uses a play-within-a-play to expose his uncle's guilt in his father's murder. The phrase also serves as the title for numerous books, podcasts, television episodes, and even a board game, with meanings ranging from a theatrical proverb to the essential role of children's play in development. "
- William Shakespeare
Source: No Sweat Shakespeare