One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
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A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
quote by Terence Rattigan
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I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
quote by Peter Shaffer
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Uncertainty.
Every time i think that this is the destination,
Everytime i think that this is the end....of my search,
Everytime i think that this is here to stay,
Life reminds me that its all a mirage that i see.
This time around i again thought,
That this is here to stay,
But only to realize in a short while,
That life is far from such assurances.
That this might all be transient,
That this might again be a visitor in the inn of life,
By the side of this long road on way to nowhere.
That a candle lit in my darkness to burn for a few moments,
And then vaporize as if it was never there.
The quaint tune that floated down the hills,
Might just stop to play oneday,
Leaving the vaccuum of existence silent as before.
This stage is set for the ballad,
That might never be played at all,
But the echoes of the rehearsals and the forlorn decorations,
Shall tell of the earnest efforts of the playwright.
Can the playwright try to get it staged again?
poem by Anirbit Mukherjee
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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
quote by Timothy West
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
quote by Beth Henley
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
quote by Jose Saramago
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
quote by Sam Shepard
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
quote by George Jean Nathan
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I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.
quote by Lusia Strus
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
quote by Arthur Miller
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
quote by Laura Linney
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
quote by Wilson Mizner
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Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
quote by William Goldman
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
quote by Don DeLillo
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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
quote by Liev Schreiber
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Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
quote by Mark Helprin
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It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
quote by John Lithgow
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Gore Vidal
Novelist, playwright, wizened sage
A man unafraid to speak his mind
War on corrupt regime he waged
Restored sight to ignorant ‘n blind
ROTMS
poem by Ray Lucero
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There once was a sage playwright from Stratford,
Whose witty meanings I couldn't afford.
I popped in New Place maison,
Right upon River Avon,
And scrubbed all of his texts on my washboard.
by Dan Costinaş (26 June 2022)
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