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“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.”

Actors Audience Figures Critics Affair Passionate Welcome Comic Playwright Actors 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.”

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.”

Actors Audience Humorous Observers Cant Casual Actors And Audience

Author:Brendan Coyle

“All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.”

Children Art Beautiful Actors Born Poverty Technology Audience Struggle Alive Stage Oppression Censorship Moralist Actors And Audience

Book:The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction

Source: The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”

Suffering Audience Target Audience Actors And Audience

Author:Alfred Hitchcock