27th March: World Theatre Day

For World Theatre Day, 10 quotes and quips about the theatre:

1. If all the world’s a stage and men and women merely players, where is the audience to come from?
2. Hamlet. Son of Piglet.
3. Are you trying to break into show business? No - it’s just a stage I’m going through.
4. Spokesman for Leeds Theatre: It wasn’t until the dress rehearsal that we realised there were nude scenes in the play.
5. At a high school speech day an act from Midsummer night's Dream was performed by pupils. The then bishop of Chichester in a speech thanking the performers remarked: "I may say this is the first time I have ever seen a female Bottom."
6. Bernard Shaw's way of resolving whether Francis Bacon did or did not write Shakespeare's plays: "Get Beerbohm Tree to play Hamlet, dig them both up, and see who turns over."
7. All the world’s a stage .... most of us are just stagehands.
8. If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door. Paul Beatty
9. The audience are literally electrified and glued to their seats. Ted Lowe
10. The one man show you do, is that just you? Terry Wogan