[SML] Theatre Quote

[Keith Arsenault]

“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. 
Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. 
Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. 
That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.” 
― Orson Welles




> On Aug 29, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Stephen Litterst via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> 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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