January 2012
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December 2011
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April 2011
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“You can’t separate fucking and economics.”
– Victoria, from Caryl Churchill’s play Cloud Nine (1979)
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“And the little green pig said - “Oh please God, please don’t let them make me...”
– Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman (via artshouldnotbeperfect)
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March 2011
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A Facelift for Asian Theatre
By Amardeep Sohi in The Guardian Theatre Blog, 23 April 2010.
Forget Bollywood endings and arranged marriages – what British-Asian theatre needs is fresh, honest writing that reflects modern society. And not a dance routine in sight.
“Get the curry smells wafting through the auditorium while the audience are mesmerised by the singing of wafer-thin red and gold dancers.” This...
February 2011
5 posts
Gorgeous Theatrical Madness or Blasphemy? →
Hamlet House of Horror, an Edinburgh Fringe hit last year. Check out all the funky things on their site.
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Kevin Spacey Plans Middle East Academy -... →
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January 2011
19 posts
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“Seeking what changes, don’t forget to ask what changes in you, the...”
– Excerpt from Elinor Fuchs’ Visit to a Small Planet - Some Questions to Ask a Play
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“To see this entire world, do this literally: Mold the play into a medium-sized...”
– Excerpt from Elinor Fuchs’ Visit to a Small Planet - Some Questions to Ask a Play
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“I don’t like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught...”
– Mark Ruffalo (via fuckyeahbrando)
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"You know I can't sign nothing."
Katurian: Did you sign anything?
Michal: Huh? You know I can't sign nothing.
Katurian: Then maybe we can still get out of this.
Michal: Get out of what?
Katurian: Get out of being executed for killing three children, Michal.
Michal: Oh, get out of being executed for killing three children. That'd be good. How?
- The Pillowman (2003) Martin McDonagh
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“A word does not start as a word - it is an end product which begins as an...”
– Peter Brook, The Empty Space
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Greg Allen's 25 Rules for Creating Good Theatre →
Rule #1: Don’t create good theater. You must intend to create GREAT theater. We don’t need any more perfectly good productions of perfectly good scripts. You are setting out to do something great or it’s not worth doing.
Rule #2: Set that thought aside. Don’t worry about the end product or whether anyone says how great or horrible your show is. Create the show you believe in. Become consumed...
LORD ARTHUR GORING: Shouldn't you be in bed, Miss Mabel?
MABEL: Lord Goring!
GORING: My father always tells me to go to bed, so I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only sensible thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
--Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
LORD ARTHUR GORING: I'm sorry, Father, but the truth is, this is not my day for talking seriously.
LORD CAVERSHAM: Well, what do you mean, sir?
GORING: I mean that I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday of every month. Between noon and three.
-Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
LORD ARTHUR GORING: My dear Mrs. Cheveley, I should make you a very bad husband.
LAURA: I don't mind bad husbands. I've had two. They amused me immensely.
--Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
LORD CAVERSHAM: What are you doing here, sir? Wasting your time, as usual?
LORD ARTHUR GORING: My dear father, when one pays a visit, it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time and not one's own.
--Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
MABEL: You are very late!
LORD ARTHUR GORING: Have you missed me?
MABEL: Awfully!
GORING: Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer. I like being missed.
MABEL: How very selfish of you!
GORING: I am very selfish.
MABEL: Lord Goring, you are always telling me about your bad qualities.
GORING: I haven't told you half of them as yet, Miss Mabel.
MABEL: Really? Are the others very bad?
GORING: Quite dreadful! When I think of them at night, I go to sleep at once.
--Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Goring - Wilde's preservation of himself in art and who you want to be. In spite of the now unfortunate Nazi name.