This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the reperto

This…is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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…I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. – Howard Barker

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