“In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.” WorldFirstsPlayRoomsMediaEventsCrisisIranLiving RoomHostageTehranWorld EventsHostage Crisis Author:Chris Terrio
“We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.” Has BeensWarPlayLordRolesMiddleOughtTomorrowVoteCrisisBillsEastFuelMiddle EastCollapseJulyBankruptcyEuroRecessDanishInsolvency Author:Tony Benn
“The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.” MenHumansImportantPlayReligiousRolesModernAwarenessRelationDown AndCrisisSacredAwakeningAbsenceContactModern Man Author:Mircea Eliade
“I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.” KnowsYearsMayI CanHardEnoughPlayUseFallLanguageSimpleRolesKnow HowFieldsHard WorkEssenceScientistAskingCrisisClimateVariousSpendingRelateDiscoveringSophisticatedChipsExpertisePsychologist Author:Al Gore
“The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.” PlayPoliticalTruth IsTheaterCrisisCrops Author:Frank Rich
“I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.” WorldFeelsWritingYearsPlayKidsSchoolVoiceCommunityActingToo MuchIdentityThis WorldGoes OnLessonsProgramTheaterCrisisSevenAccessI RealizedAuditionsSeven YearsConsumingIdentity CrisisTime Consuming Author:Tavi Gevinson
“The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.” WayMindSelfPlayActorsSeeingIdentityIllusionCrisisAuthenticityMaskDelusionDividedIdentity Crisis Book:Healing fiction Source: Healing fiction
“And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em.” PeopleWritingTryingMayPlayProblemForgetDealsDoorsLandFiguresAdultsCrisisScalesEmsTeensCeoSlamTweens Author:Lauren Myracle
“"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that - and then I watched an episode of 24. In my head, I was writing almost a parody of a 24-style president woken in the middle of the night with a crisis. It seemed more interesting to play it ultrastraight and to have the viewer's initial reaction be one of laughter and disbelief - and just have the whole thing become progressively more uncomfortable.” WritingIdeasPlayWholeNightPresidentInterestingMiddleStyleLaughterCrisisReactionsBelovedUncomfortableEpisodesViewersInitialsDisbeliefKnockingParodyMiddle Of The NightAnthemNational Anthem Author:Charlie Brooker
“India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.” PlayRolesInfluenceTrainingIndiaCrisisIncludingSpheresDominantTigersSri LankaAggravatedSphere Of Influence Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran
“The Fed has a lot of power in the economy because it has a big impact on the supply and cost of credit, that is, interest rates. It also plays a key role in supervising banks and historically has seemed to take it easy on the banks when it shouldn't have, such as in the lead up to the financial crisis.” PlayBigsEasyInterestRolesEconomyKeysCostCrisisImpactRateFinancialCreditFedsInterest RateFinancial CrisisTake It EasyBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.” IfsThinkingKindI CanPlayCharacterBigsFacesLife IsSpiritGamesWinningLosesLaughingTroubleTragedyCrisisShouldersCrushPettyHazardsTroubles In Life Book:Daddy-Long-Legs Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as the country that people around the world continue to look to in times of crisis, we've got a vital role to play. We can't stand on the sidelines. We've got a unique responsibility.” PeopleWorldLooksCountryPlayAbilityResponsibilityRolesEconomyUniqueInnovationCrisisClimate ChangeAround The WorldGlobal WarmingCarbonBreakthroughSidelinesTimes Of Crisis Author:Barack Obama
“Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter's downfall.” WorldStatesPlayPresidentDecisionUnitedRolesUnited StatesMediaOfficeCrisisLeavingEmpiresIranManipulationAlliesDrsInfluentialCarterOld FriendsIranianHostageDownfallKissingerPresident CarterHostage Crisis Author:Murray Rothbard
“Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.” WorldArtBookPlaySeemsTodayArtistStruggleIssuesArmsCapitalismTreatsCrisisNotesLocalsDialogueCommunismThemeContradictionFascismImplicationsAngstDisappointingBrecht Author:Richard Foreman
“To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.” PeopleMenPlayIndividualParentAudienceIdentityChangedJudgingHeroMajorsCrisisInstitutionsPhilosopherPsychologicalMagazinesDefinedPeersDisturbanceIdentity Crisis Book:Dice Man Source: Dice Man
“Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.” Has BeensEnoughPlaySuccessfulRiskIdentityCrisisDefenseBoredEngagementMechanismSolitaryNeuroticDisarmamentStaleFortressesConfinementIdentity CrisisOld MovieSolitary ConfinementDefense Mechanisms Book:What to do when you're bored and blue Source: What to do when you're bored and blue