I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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Unknown
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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William Shakespeare
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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William Shakespeare
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
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Marsha Norman
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
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Vincent H. ONeil
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