The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections a... A source page for quotes linked to Robert Edmond Jones. 0 quotes
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“A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.” EnvironmentStageTheaterBackgroundsSettingSettingsBuilt EnvironmentStagecraft Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre
“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.” WorldDreamActionLawLyingEnergyExistenceNormalOrdinaryConsciousIndependentEverydaySurfaceImpulseOur ThoughtsOur ActionsCasualBeneath The Surface Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue
“The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.” DoneSchoolStudyTheater Author:Robert Edmond Jones
“The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.” ArtActorsNaturalDesignSceneAimTheatreSoleLighting Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre
“Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.” FeelsWellsArtFeelingsEffortPracticeDesignTheaterTheatreExtrasRealismFeeling BadFeeling DownExtra Effort Book:Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones Source: Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones
“There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.” ReasonPlayActorsRoomsStageMoralityTheatreReproduction Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue