top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"I'm reluctant to use the word class so much."
Class
"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."
Audience
"The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war."
Time
"You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing."
Rules
"The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else."
Car
"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
Language
"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."
Pretty
"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
Houses
"I don't believe in right-angled turning points."
Right
"The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them."
People
More
"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
Author Name
Personal Development
"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page