Piles of scrapbooks, the cuttings turned by time to the colour of the freckles on an old lady's hand. Her hand. My hand, as it is ...now. When you touch the old newsprint, it turns into brown dust, like the dust of bones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Very roughly, the drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion; what... is left is theater. Drama is immensely durable; after a thousand critical disputes, it is still there, undiminished, ready for the next wranglers. Theater is magical and evanescent; examine it closely and it turns into tricks of lighting, or the grace of a particular gesture, or the tone of a voice--and these are not its substance, but the rubbish that is left when magic has departed. Theater is the response, the echo, which drama awakens within us when we see it on the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommod...ate great and small.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »