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the play

«In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theater. The play is finished, but the echoes remain.»
«Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.»
«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
«Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose and clouding himself in mystique.»
«Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?»
«I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.»
Author: Edward Albee | About: Play | Keywords: imperfect, suggesting, the play
«Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | Keywords: the play
«It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.»
«I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.»
«I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.»

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