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a-girl-and-her-quotes · 22 hours

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Rebecca McNutt

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mariocki · 2 years

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Vladimir: Did you ever read the Bible?

Estragon: The Bible... [He reflects.] I must have taken a look at it.

Vladimir: Do you remember the Gospels?

Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. There's where we'll go, I used to say, there's where we'll go for our honeymoon. We'll swim. We'll be happy.

Vladimir: You should have been a poet.

Estragon: I was. [Gesture towards his rags.] Isn't that obvious.

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Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

#samuel beckett #waiting for godot #modern theatre #theatre quotes #1955 #modern drama #Godot had been written in 48 and 49 in French‚ and premiered in 53 in Paris‚ where Beckett was based #an english translation didn't appear until 54‚ and Beckett took the opportunity to make small edits and some significant substitutions #there were also edits for censorship (theatrical censorship being fairly draconian in 50s Britain; even a name like Fartov was considered #too much by the Lord Chamberlain) and once Faber published their version in 56 there were yet more changes and omissions #alas I picked up a copy on my way to work (for reasons‚ my job currently entails a lot of sitting around doing not very much) and grabbed #my old Faber edition (a corrected version wouldn't be available in english until the mid 60s) so I'm working from a bastardized text #actually Beckett would continue to tinker with Godot for the rest of his life‚ so the jury's out on which if any is the 'correct' text #nevertheless I'm having a great time. it's over a decade since i read this‚ as a lowly undergrad‚ and had my socks blown asunder #Beckett's prose has lost none of its magic; a carefully choreographed dance in words between two people who can't see their own moves #it's tempting to read all manner of subtext and innuendo into Beckett's minimalist dialogue‚ but the writer himself always strongly #resisted attempts at micro analysis; in fact he bored pretty quickly of the attention this play in particular seemed to earn‚ and would #repeatedly downplay any philosophical or political interpretations of the play. that's not to say those ideas don't exist or that those #readings lack merit; a play is almost by definition a political beast‚ a play of this kind in this era in this place and time particularly #so. but if Godot is any one thing more than others‚ it's a joyous examination of the art of conversation about nothing; more than any other #playwright (excepting perhaps Pinter)‚ you get the sense that every syllable was precisely and carefully chosen by Beckett‚ every word #carefully weighed and considered before inscription. perhaps then Godot is not a play at all; perhaps it is a poem #in loose free form‚ a sprawling poem of multiple voices in discordant harmony. or maybe it isn't. what do i know #I'm just a tumblr blog

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hornyforpoetry · 1 year

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Five foolish quotes from Feste The Fool (”Twelfth Night” // Shakespeare)

1. ” Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours ”

2. ” For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit ”

3. ” Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another ”

4. ” Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them ”

5. ” Foolery, sir, Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abuseddoes walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere ”

”Pierrot Le Fou” // 1718-1719 // Jean-Antoine Watteau

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betterinthedarkblog · 7 months

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“It’s dangerous, son…when a man goes outside his home to look for peace.” — Lorraine Hansberry, A RAISIN IN THE SUN

#lorraine hansberry #a raisin in the sun #theatre quotes #theater #play quotes #dramatist #playwriting #theatrical favorites #theatre #drama #stages #pages

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sophthecanofsoup · 1 year

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"All I want is freedom

A world with no more night

And you, always beside me

To hold me and to hide me"

- All I ask of you, The phantom of the opera

#phantom of the opera #poto #christine daae #phantom of the opera musical #phantom #the phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera quote #theatre kid #theatre #musical theatre #theatre quote #theatre quotes #musicals #music #musical #musical quotes #musical quote

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tobbogan-13 · 5 months

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"Killing js a very intimate act"

-My Chorus teacher

#school quotes #theatre quotes #quotes #random

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gilraenanarion92 · 8 months

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I choose whether or not I want to conform to unrealistic beauty ideals perpetuated by the media.

Fucking Feminist - Rose Lewenstein

#book #books #quote #quotes #book quotes #theatre #theatre quotes #plays #woman playwright #Rose lewenstein #fucking feminist #feminist

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theleadingmanpod · 1 year

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Select quotes from conversations in a few of the episodes in 2023 so far, to give you an idea what you're in for upon listening. I always welcome your contributions to the conversations too!

#theleadingmanpod #the leading man podcast #theatre #theater #theatre podcast #theater podcast #podcast #podcasting #quotes #theatre quotes

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jay-wasreblogging · 1 month

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Why are gangbangs only for sex? Why can't I join in a group assassination if I want to?

#quote by a senator probably #also please tell me y'all know the og meme of this #julius caesar #ides of march #march 15 #march 15th #tumblr holidays #meme #caesar #theatre #ancient rome #stabby day #history

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ao3-crack · 5 months

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#archive of our own #ao3 stuff #ao3 quotes #archive of our own quotes #fanfic #fanfic quotes #funny #ao3 #ao3 tags #a cautionary tale #of non-theatre kids getting drunk off the power of becoming theatre kids #I hate that theatre is spelled like that #it’s very pretty and nice to look at #but it should be spelled theater #im American sue me #(for legal and financial reasons this is a joke)#(im broke please don’t actually sue me)#(i will cry)

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a-girl-and-her-quotes · 2 days

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Marty Rubin

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mariocki · 2 years

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Phaedra: I love you.

[Silence.]

Hippolytus: Why?

Phaedra: You're difficult. Moody, cynical, bitter, fat, decadent, spoilt. You stay in bed all day then watch TV all night, you crash around this house with sleep in your eyes and not a thought for anyone. You're in pain. I adore you.

Hippolytus: Not very logical.

Phaedra: Love isn't.

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Sarah Kane, Phaedra's Love (1996)

#100plays #sarah kane #phaedra's love #modern drama #modern theatre #theatre quotes #1996

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dc-and-damirae · 1 year

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tim: the chances of you getting killed by your dead sibling is low

*Jason walks in to frame wearing a robin costume*

tim: but never zero