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Quote by Robert Brustein
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein

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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out ones acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet ones friends, and show that ones alive. – Fanny Burney

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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. – Bertolt Brecht

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Its one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman. – Tallulah Bankhead

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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything – Antonin Artaud

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