[SML] Theatre Quote

[Stephen Litterst]

On 8/29/16 1:45 PM, Miller, Daniel via Stagecraft wrote:
> I have been asked to speak about the importance of theatre in today’s
> world and wanted to use a quote from a well-known theatre personality….
> Unfortunately, I am having a great deal of difficulty finding such a
> quote or interview. Does anyone have any suggestions?


Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it 
can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic. Kim 
Cattrall

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to 
fantasize about a world we aspire to. Willem Dafoe

“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.”
―Oscar Wilde

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to 
arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may 
be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men 
and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought 
to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
Arthur Miller

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also 
the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde




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