theatre [Theme] Page 4

Theater is a bunch of crazy, fanatical, hysterical, sweet, touching, naive and mostly unhappy people with an accidentally happy fate.

And you don't even need to play Vysotsky, Katchalov or Smoktunovsky. We need to play Chatsky, Mephistopheles and Othello, and we must try to become the Kachalovs and Smoktunovskys.

- And I did not leave the theater in order not to be late.

If two are talking, and the third is listening to their conversation, this is already theater.

One evening the troupe argued over whether it deserved preference - a novel or a drama. Mirror insisted that this was a useless argument based on a misunderstanding, and both could be excellent in their own way, as long as they only stay within the limits of their kind.

Mirror believed that with the plays as they are, there is nothing to be especially careful about, because of this, Shakespeare, and especially Hamlet, had to undergo many changes.

I would like the stage to be as narrow as the wire of a rope-dancer, so that inept people would not dare to step on it; now everyone considers himself gifted enough to parade on it.

If talent creates a good name for us and earns people's affection, then it is fair that our diligence and efforts provide us with the means to satisfy our needs, for we are not disembodied spirits!

they do not take fruit, but a dummy.

I say this for you, not for the crowd: after all, each of us for the other is a packed theater.

If the actor, who is ordered to beat the other, in excitement under an excessive influx of feelings begins to really beat and the other screams in pain, then the person in the viewer must protest and he must intervene.

Good direction can turn a bad piece into a wonderful theatrical experience.

They can put “At the bottom” there.

Hoffmann anticipated Wilde's paradox that theater does not arise from life, but life comes from theater. From the theater of the absurd, in which playwrights and directors are future fathers.