In other words
Quotes about theatre, discovered in daily life.
“The audience are there. You know if you’re telling the story properly… I’m not going to get dressed up and go on stage and do it for myself… I once was feeling very off colour and I said to Sir Ian McKellen, ‘I’m going to pretend that Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, and God the Father have bought three seats in the stalls, and I’m going to do it for them tonight.’ And he said, ‘Jude, that’s absolutely terrific. Although they’ll only need one seat.’”
— Judi Dench on the The New Yorker Radio Hour, April 2024, after being asked by David Remnick what the difference was between doing Shakespeare on stage and on film.
“Why is [the end of The Iliad] the best part?” Sadie asked.
“Because it’s perfect,” Marx said. “‘Tamer of horses’ is an honest profession. The lines mean that one doesn’t have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.”
— Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a novel by Gabrielle Zevin
‘The NSW Police Band struck up the My Fair Lady hit, ‘With a Little Bit of Luck’, at the sod-turning ceremony to mark the beginning of building [the Sydney Opera House] at Bennelong Point on 2 March 1959.’
— The House, a book by Helen Pitt
