Today, March 27th, is World Theatre Day. It celebrates the artistic beauty of theatre and focuses on the theme “Theatre and a Culture of Peace,” which highlights the role of theatre in bringing people together worldwide. In this blog post, enjoy the performance of 27 inspirational quotes about the theatre world. 🙂
“All the World’s a Stage”
“All the world’s a stage,
William Shakespeare
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
“Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.” Willem Dafoe
“That’s the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.” Brian Stokes Mitchell
“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.” Stella Adler
“The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.” Edward Bond
“In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.” Juliet Stevenson
“We have the ability to change people’s minds and hearts – that’s what we want to do with theatre. That’s what theatre does… period.” Gavin Creel
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“Theatre Nourishes Your Creative Soul”
“Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance – anything creative. It doesn’t promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that’s good.”
Marc Jacobs
“With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.” Willem Dafoe
“A creative and artistic home is what I’ve been looking for in the theatre.” Kenneth Branagh
“Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn’t realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.” Douglas Wilson
“I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.” Jim Henson
“I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.” Lusia Strus
“Theatre was my first love. I can’t take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn’t want to. To me, it’s home.” Jim Parsons
“I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.” Tony Shalhoub
“I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character, and then at 7:30 pm, you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.” Christopher Eccleston
“People Come to the Theatre to Be Excited and Uplifted”
“People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted – I want to inspire my audience.”
Edward Hall
“When I come into the theatre, I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.” Vivien Leigh
“I’m passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.” Simon McBurney
“People know that they’re going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it’s in. It’s dance theatre, and it requires you to use your imagination – it’s not straightforward.” Matthew Bourne
“The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren’t necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.” Lynn Nottage
“In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.” Charles Keating
“With a theatre audience, there’s always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I’m acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready – your voice, physicality, brain.” Greta Scacchi
“Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.” Juliette Binoche
“I trained in the theatre, and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.” Ewan McGregor
“I suppose I’m really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.” Simon McBurney
“Through a shared aim, shared needs, shared love of a shared result in theatre, from the creation of space… the coming-together of an endlessly repeated climax of shared performance, again and again, something special can appear.” Peter Brook
The Historic Theatre of Hvar
Among the gems of Hvar Town’s cultural heritage in Croatia is the Historic Theatre of Hvar, the first public theatre in Europe, established in 1612. In the photos, admire the architecture and interior design of this cultural treasure.
Let’s enjoy the artistic beauty of theatre. 🙂
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