Many
audiences all over the world will answer positively
from their own experience that they have seen the
face of the invisible through an experience on the
stage that transcended their experience in life.
They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or
Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty
and with love fires the spirit and gives them a
reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.
-- Peter
Stephen Paul) Brook
(1925-, British Theatre and Film Director
It was
a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all
rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's
hand.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British
Novelist
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves,
whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an
audience.
-- Diogenes of Sinope
c.410-320 BC, Cynic
Philosopher
It is
because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and
passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time
to time so that we can tell from their bear-like
grunts where they are -- and also where they stand.
They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers,
because they are fighting against intelligence.
-- Alfred Jarry
1873-1907, French
Playwright, Author
