"Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare."

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Source : Press Release by the Arts Council of Great Britain, November 02, 1983.

Alan Ayckbourn

#Play Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Audience Quotes

“How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?”
“It's nice to say or it's great to ask, are we limiting opportunities for women? But do we even have each other's support, frankly, on our way there?”
“Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.”
“It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.”
“All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”
“Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.”
“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
“It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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