New Delhi: All the world is a stage are the renowned words from the most historic playwrights. William Shakespeare observed the world as a stage and the people as mere actors. But there are a great number of people whose lives are dedicated to acting and theatre.
World Theatre Day is celebrated every year on March 27, and the day is commemorated by ITI centers, theatre professionals, universities, academies and schools as well. Theatres have been the primary outlet for writers, actors and audiences long before the ‘lights, camera, action’ world of pictures. The emotions that arise in a live performance are always delightful to watch.
World Theatre Day was established in 1961 by the International Theater Institute. Every year, a play writer or a stage actor writes the ‘message’ of the year. This year’s message is written by writer and actor Helen Mirren, an Academy Award winner for best actress in the movie Queen.
Here are some quotes about the amazing world of theatre
• “Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good”- Terence Mann
• “Everything happens every night for this audience, and it’s a very special occasion to come to the theatre.” -Roger Rees
• “Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.” -Greta Scacchi
• “Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.” -Victor Hugo
• “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” – Oscar Wilde
• “The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout,” -Robert Holman
• “I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theatre is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.” -Laurence Olivier
• “The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!”– Iris Murdoch
