“I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.” FirstsSchoolTogetherFilmFoundSocialDifficultCommunityActingBoysStudentsInvolvedFirst TimeTheaterMassiveClassroomHobbiesOutletsElementary School Author:Holland Roden
“Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.” PeopleMovingSocialIssuesInspireRevolutionCapacityTheaterIncrediblesAddressesSocial ChangeSocial Revolution Author:Eve Ensler
“... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.” MindHeartDoeForceSocialPowerfulModernIgnoranceDramaPrejudiceTheaterDevelopingStrongestTidesSuperstitionsHeart And MindDiscontentInterpreterUnrestDamsSwelling Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience can't help but relate it in some way, and to continue that conversation outside the theater. I want people saying "this happened to my father" or "this happened to me." That's what I want.” PeopleWayWantHelpingFatherSocialAudienceHappenedTypeConversationTheaterRelateRelevance Author:Ric Roman Waugh
“The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.” ShouldLittlesArtStatesGovernmentDesireSocialEconomicSpeechConcernIdealsTheaterStructureSizeTortureExecutionFreedom Of SpeechModestPortraitsStampsExceedFreedom Of ThoughtPostagePostage Stamps Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.” ThinkingMovingSocialConsciousnessRolesExampleMovementTheaterSouthSouth AfricaApartheidSocial Movements Author:Saul Williams
“Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.” SocialActingSceneBandTheaterFallenNerdGeekMerry Author:Adam Baldwin
“Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.” PeopleWellsEvilSocialHealingGoneTransformationTheaterStudiosTraumaSettingSettingsWell BeingTherapyConvinceTemplesVillageRitualSolidarityCompoundsExorcism Book:Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress
“I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.” ThinkingFeelsEnoughHelpingUsedSocialFeltPartyTheaterAntisocial Author:Adam Rapp
“My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.” PeopleYearsBookKidsUsedSocialParentHoursRoomsRichWeekPicksTheaterLibraryPhotographSatParksMakeupBalletOperaSaturdayInteriorsCostumesSocial LifeDowntownUpstairsPublic LibraryHonolulu Author:Bette Midler
“Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.” MenSocialRealizingBusinessFailingMen And WomenOrganizationTheaterCorporationsProductiveSocial OrganizationProductive Life Author:Lester Bangs
“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.” PeopleMeanSocialActingSituationSeeingTheaterTheatreGreekBest ActingTheatre ActingMethod ActingActing TeachersTruth About Life Author:Stella Adler
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.” ArtFormSocialAudienceEffectsCommunicationTheaterVariousMultimedia Author:Wole Soyinka
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.” WantGivingSocialAudienceToo MuchSceneTheaterTheatreSuggestionsHints Author:Orson Welles