[Monica Mason, Director, Royal Ballet] It’s when something is so wonderfully communicated, whether it’s a physical moment or whether it’s an interpretive moment…when your imagination and their imagination absolutely makes the link.
[Paulette Randall, Director] I want to be able to engage with the actors and go on this journey with these characters and find out what’s going to happen, and feel something.
[A Christmas Carol 2008]
[Man] In this world a child dies of want or because of ignorance every three seconds…one…two…three…
[Charles Hazelwood, Composer, A Christmas Carol 2008] Performance can only be about someone standing on a stage in any kind of space where people are watching them and listening to them and that performer has something which they are bursting to share.
[After Mrs Rochester 2003]
[Woman] We were married only a few weeks before I discovered her true nature. I found her tastes obnoxious, her mind low, she would get drunk and then irrupt in outbreaks of violent and unreasonable temper. She had an appetite for every kind of excess and yes, for other men.
[Polly Teale, Writer/Director, After Mrs Rochester] In theatre you can express the part of the self that is hidden or repressed. You can make visible something that’s usually hidden inside us, so go beyond the surface.
[Henry Goodman, Actor] The act of theatre is to provoke and unleash moments of lucidity and insight and where emotion and reason meet.
[The Merchant of Venice 2008]
[Henry Goodman] If you break us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you harm us, shall we not revenge?
[Henry Goodman, Actor] The audience go away with an image and an experience that you can’t put words to and that’s why you must go to live theatre.
[Bill Wyman, Musician] Performing live is what we were great at.
The audience appreciate what you’re doing, you play better and you move around more, accept for me, and then they get more animated and it’s quite magical.
[Michael Frayn, Writer] When you have a hundred, three hundred, a thousand people sitting in the same room, reacting to the same thing you get a very intense version of that absolutely common, human experience.
[Twelfth Night, 2008]
[Man] Some achieve greatness…
[Woman] What sayest thou?
[Man] …and some have greatness thrust upon them.
[Michael Frayn, Writer] I have to say, what happens in the theatre is just a particularly dramatic version of what happens to all of us all the time in life. We are all being, giving a performance and we’re all being an audience at the same time.
[Peter Hall, Director] Theatre is basically a human and humanistic celebration about humanitarian values, and it’s only by contemplating the dreadful and the evil and the awful that we can actually understand ourselves and do anything about saving ourselves.
[Waiting for Godot, Director, Peter Hall]
[Man 1] What do we do now?
[Man 2] I don’t know.
[Man 1] Let’s go.
[Man 2] We can’t.
[Man 1] Why not?
[Man 2] We’re waiting for Godot.
[Man 1] Ah yes.
[Peter Brook, Director] There’s no aspect of existence that isn’t legitimately part of theatre and when you see that curiosity is boundless and can’t have any end.
[Paulette Randall, Director] I want to be able to engage with the actors and go on this journey with these characters and find out what’s going to happen, and feel something.
[A Christmas Carol 2008]
[Man] In this world a child dies of want or because of ignorance every three seconds…one…two…three…
[Charles Hazelwood, Composer, A Christmas Carol 2008] Performance can only be about someone standing on a stage in any kind of space where people are watching them and listening to them and that performer has something which they are bursting to share.
[After Mrs Rochester 2003]
[Woman] We were married only a few weeks before I discovered her true nature. I found her tastes obnoxious, her mind low, she would get drunk and then irrupt in outbreaks of violent and unreasonable temper. She had an appetite for every kind of excess and yes, for other men.
[Polly Teale, Writer/Director, After Mrs Rochester] In theatre you can express the part of the self that is hidden or repressed. You can make visible something that’s usually hidden inside us, so go beyond the surface.
[Henry Goodman, Actor] The act of theatre is to provoke and unleash moments of lucidity and insight and where emotion and reason meet.
[The Merchant of Venice 2008]
[Henry Goodman] If you break us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you harm us, shall we not revenge?
[Henry Goodman, Actor] The audience go away with an image and an experience that you can’t put words to and that’s why you must go to live theatre.
[Bill Wyman, Musician] Performing live is what we were great at.
The audience appreciate what you’re doing, you play better and you move around more, accept for me, and then they get more animated and it’s quite magical.
[Michael Frayn, Writer] When you have a hundred, three hundred, a thousand people sitting in the same room, reacting to the same thing you get a very intense version of that absolutely common, human experience.
[Twelfth Night, 2008]
[Man] Some achieve greatness…
[Woman] What sayest thou?
[Man] …and some have greatness thrust upon them.
[Michael Frayn, Writer] I have to say, what happens in the theatre is just a particularly dramatic version of what happens to all of us all the time in life. We are all being, giving a performance and we’re all being an audience at the same time.
[Peter Hall, Director] Theatre is basically a human and humanistic celebration about humanitarian values, and it’s only by contemplating the dreadful and the evil and the awful that we can actually understand ourselves and do anything about saving ourselves.
[Waiting for Godot, Director, Peter Hall]
[Man 1] What do we do now?
[Man 2] I don’t know.
[Man 1] Let’s go.
[Man 2] We can’t.
[Man 1] Why not?
[Man 2] We’re waiting for Godot.
[Man 1] Ah yes.
[Peter Brook, Director] There’s no aspect of existence that isn’t legitimately part of theatre and when you see that curiosity is boundless and can’t have any end.