"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

Ian McEwan, British Author

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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

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"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."

Jerry Herman, American Composer

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"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"

Adam Pascal, American Actor

Theatre, Theater, Will

"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."

Brenda Blethyn, English Actress

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"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

Tristan Bernard, French Playwright

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"With my background, I came out of the theater."

Joe Morton, American Actor

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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

Harrison Birtwistle, British Composer

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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

Steven Berkoff, English Actor

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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

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"Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history."

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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

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"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."

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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

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"Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time."

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"I certainly had no intention of playing a man."

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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."

"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."

"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"

"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

"With my background, I came out of the theater."

"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

"Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history."

"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

"My mother taught me to read."

"I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland."

"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."

"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time."

"I certainly had no intention of playing a man."