Theatre History Quotes

#1. Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

Richard Hornby

#2. In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

Anne Bogart

#3. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Liev Schreiber

#4. It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Charles Dickens

#5. To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

David McCullough

#6. Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

Ariane Mnouchkine

#7. I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

Romola Garai

#8. I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

Brenton Thwaites

#9. STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.

Peter Capaldi

#10. We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity

Natasha Tsakos

#11. The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

George Santayana

#12. The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony
periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#13. Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination

Natasha Tsakos

#14. It's no longer history in the making.
It's our story we are making.

Natasha Tsakos

#15. History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Thomas Carlyle

#16. The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

Peter Ackroyd

#17. My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

Yael Stone

#18. I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Pippa Evans

#19. Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!

Katherine Givens

#20. Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

Jean Fernel