“on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.” WorldRealDreamBodyMovingDiesCreativeTheaterUnionsBreatheCraftsAgentsOwnersIronBitesHostTicketsEstatesBroadwayLungsVultureBrokersSpeculators Book:The New York I Know Source: The New York I Know
“The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.” WorldSelfUseBodyStruggleLet MeTheaterVariousInner LifeInner Struggle Author:Margo Jefferson
“I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance.” MenMadeWarHomeBodyCareStrongForeverGroupsBalanceVoteTheaterSacredMedicalWoundsImpressionBagsHospitalsReceivingWoundedUnitsLife Altering Author:Mark Sanford
“We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.” HumansMadePlayBodyFacesForceStuffTeachKnowingIdentityPaperTasksSkinsTheaterSymbolsMeatNot Knowing Author:Kim Hyesoon
“America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.” PeopleIfsBelieveHas BeensCountryFactsBodyAbleAmericaCultureNumbersMilitaryStyleGunTragedyTheaterWestDirtyMentalityPolicemenArmorArtilleryCarnageWild WestAuroraGun Culture Author:Bob Costas
“Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.” WayWritingWellsI CanDoneBodyFacesVoiceShotsTheaterScriptsYour BodyCraftsYour FaceIndelible Author:William Mapother
“I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body.” FeelsBodyTogetherAlivePerformancesTheaterMusicalCellsNutsMusical TheaterOrchestration Author:Kelly Stables
“I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."” ThinkingEndsShowsBodyFallWeekPleaseTheaterFalling In LoveYour BodySaying Please Author:Cillian Murphy
“In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.” PeopleSaidHomeBodyPastBeautifulUsedFrontsBuildingTheaterDenialVacationDisplayColonialismOur PastThreatenedBrazilDowntownPosingRioOld BuildingsBakeries Author:Sonia Braga
“In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.” TwoWholeBodyEnergyHoursHalfMonthsSixTheaterReleaseSix MonthsStaminaHalf Hours Author:Alan Rickman
“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.” ThinkingDifferentBodyHandsLightMovingBoysDarknessStudyMissingLonelyLet MeTheaterShouldersHipsVisualsCigaretteAngleLiftingSlopesSidewaysMovie TheaterI Am Lonely Author:Margaret Atwood
“When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?” PeopleIfsSelfEnoughShowsBodyEyeWantedPastFormCertainEnjoyDarkSpaceBehindsBoysSawsMinesMouthsShadowGoldTheaterBonesArchitectureCollectionsSelectionFillingMasqueradeNew SelfJosie Author:Janet Fitch
“Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.” FirstsHumansMeanHas BeensStillsBodyFallDifficultLevelsTeachSkyTerribleExercisePerformancesEarsTheaterTheatreCrueltyNosesMailEmperorDetachedAnatomyHackingParcelCarvingAssyrians Book:The Theater and Its Double Source: The Theater and Its Double
“I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.” KnowsBodyBoysGrewGrew UpTheaterYour BodyRhythmBeachSitcomBeach Boys Author:John Stamos
“I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.” BodyVoiceSingingTheaterDancingCinemaCracks Author:Meredith Monk
“London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.” BodyMovingActorsGrewTheaterLondonNakedCensorshipObjectionsWindmills Author:Lynda Bellingham
“Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.” WorldLooksKindArtIdeasSoulWholeBodyTodayAblePoliticalLiteratureMoralHistoryStruggleYouthTrainingWindowTheaterBillsPressesDenyCinemaManifestationDisplayParallelsPublic LifePostersNazismPoisoningSimulationNazi GermanyRottingMein KampfVaudeville Author:Adolf Hitler