Theatre Design Quotes

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

I'm a real theatre kid - that's all I ever wanted to be.

Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

I didn't aspire to be on Broadway.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.

My first project was 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'. I co-produced that.

In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.

I've essentially done theater for more of my life than I've done television or film, and it's really something I feel I know better.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

I see a ton of theatre whenever I'm not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I'm a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I'm a big reader, too.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

I have acted in several theatre groups in Bengaluru and my passion has always been films.