Drama Analysis Quotes

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

'Doctor Who' is pretty dark, I think. Generally it's dark; it's always been dark.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.

A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative.

Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

The interest in character-driven content over narrative-driven ditto is increasing; that's why television steps in. Personally, I love it, since psychology and character, really, are my beacons.

I think that the audience is smart enough to know that just because a drama is relating to real-world parallels, it doesn't mean that its story is exactly that story.

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

Talk about high school and what we identify with in the play; things that have happened to us and all of our high school experiences that we could bring to this. And to talk about what everyone knows in each specific scene.

I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.