“A wise old stage manager with whom I worked for a long time, Robert Currie, once told me there are two rules of stage management: The first rule is that stage managers should have no opinions; the second rule is that they must know when to break rule number one.” – Thomas Kelly
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Friday Arts Quotes :: Music Edition
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! -Thomas Carlyle Without music life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -Ludwig van Beethoven After silence, that which [...]
Friday Arts Quotes: Slings & Arrows Season 2
“Richard, people are tired of ads in all their forms. They don’t believe anything we say and it doesn’t work. We at Frog Hammer ask ourselves very simple things. Is it wondrous? Does it move you? Is it culturally authentic? We believe that people are sick of being lied to. If you use truth, you [...]
Friday Arts Quotes: Stage Management Edition
I finally ordered myself a copy of “Stage Managing the Arts in Canada” by Winston Morgan which is a great handbook, but surprisingly hard to find. I had to directly e-mail the publication house and ask for a copy, but they were great about getting it to me. While it’s a little bit out of [...]
Friday Arts Quotes: Slings and Arrows Season 1
Ever since I got to Kamloops I have been missing live theatre. It’s been a month since I’ve seen a show and will be another month until I see another. In an effort to appease my soul’s desire to see live shows, I’ve been watching Slings and Arrows. If you’ve never heard of the show, [...]
Friday Arts Quotes: R&G Edition
In the past two weeks of rehearsing Rosencrantz & Guildenstern I’ve picked out a handful of my favorite quotes, some about what it means to be actors and others just because they make me smile. Enjoy. “We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do onstage the things that are [...]
Friday Arts Quotes: You Still Can’t Edition
With only 3 performances left of You Still Can’t at Pacific Theatre, I bring you an all YSC version of Friday Arts Quotes. Grandpa Tony: “Working against something you believe in. That’s not good for a person’s soul. What’ll you have to take home with you at the end of it all?” Norman: So you [...]
The Return of Friday Arts Quotes!
After a hiatus, Friday Arts Quotes are back! “Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.” – Peter Shaffer “I began my talk by saying that I had not written my plays for purposes of discussion. At once, I felt a ripple of panic run through the hall. [...]
Friday Arts Quotes: Stop Kiss Edition
From the producers notes in the program for Stop Kiss (opens tonight @ the Havana) “This play struck a cord with our hearts & simultaneously an innocent face was struck in the city. With that in mind we decided this story needed to be told. It’s a love story. Simple as that. Too often we [...]
Friday Arts Quotes
“A play’s got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It’s not music, it’s not poetry, it’s not dance, it’s not narrative – it’s dramatic…it’s about conflict. It’s about forces coming together.” – Romulus Linney “When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare [...]