Traditional Theatre Quotes

I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.

In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some Shakespeare with the RSC. That's what casting directors saw me in, and I got put up for a lot of period drama auditions. I always get told I suit the costumes. I don't think I have a very modern-looking face.

I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

I made a decision that I wanted to do five years of classical theatre before I did anything else, which was a very unfashionable thing to do.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.