“The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.” ActorsAudienceFiguresCriticsAffairPassionateWelcomeComicPlaywrightActors And Audience Book:The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose Source: The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose
“Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.” ThinkingKindArtSelfActorsSimpleWatchesAudienceColdExerciseDemandIntellectualTheaterInstinctIntellectUnconsciousSincereApprovalOutletsApplauseClappingDerogatoryActors And Audience Book:The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
“You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.” ActorsAudienceHumorousObserversCantCasualActors And Audience Author:Brendan Coyle