Theatre Quotes
For use in newsletters, season or fundraising brochures or emails, presentations--you name it.
| Category | Quote | First |
Last |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General |
There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather have no theatre than bad theatre. What we must strive for is perfection and come as close to it as is humanly possible |
Margot | Jones | http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html |
| Set Design |
I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better. |
Christine | Jones | http://www.amrep.org/articles/5_2b/creating.html |
| Set Design |
If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing. |
Christine | Jones | http://www.amrep.org/articles/5_2b/creating.html |
| Set Design |
I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration. |
Christine | Jones | http://www.amrep.org/articles/5_2b/creating.html |
| Acting, Diversity & Inclusion, Shakespeare |
In a backstage interview during “The Taming of the Shrew,” Julia exclaims, “Some people think the only way to do Shakespeare is to do it like the British do it, because the British have the answer to Shakespeare! So I would imitate all the British.” He launches into a plummy version of “Othello,” and continues, “But then afterward I started realizing that I didn’t have to do it like that. I could bring myself to it. I could bring my own culture, my own Puerto Rican background, my own Spanish culture, my own rhythms.” Shakespeare benefitted from what Julia brought to his verse, which the actress Rita Moreno describes as salero. “It just means he was spicy,” she says, in the documentary. “And sexy, and tall!” |
Raul | Julia | New Yorker article by Michael Schulman, September 13, 2019 |
