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“If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have nothing to write about.”
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over?
Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting
novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this
disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse
and worse and worse.”
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Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting
novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this
disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse
and worse and worse.”
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“No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.”
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“Anyone who wears a tiara and sequins is always going to be the winner.”
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“And what kind of name for a town is Upper Black Eddy? Pennsylvania scares me sometimes.”
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity.
Nowadays we have enough terror and pity in our own lives and so rather than going to the theatre looking for terror, we go looking for slight irritation. And rather than looking for the theatre to evoke pity, we look merely for a generalized sense of identification as in “Evita was a woman, I am a woman." Or “Sweeney Todd was a barber, I go to the hairdresser." Or “Fosca in Passion should have her moles removed, I know a good dermatologist." That sort of thing.”
― Christopher Durang Volume I: 27 Short Plays
Nowadays we have enough terror and pity in our own lives and so rather than going to the theatre looking for terror, we go looking for slight irritation. And rather than looking for the theatre to evoke pity, we look merely for a generalized sense of identification as in “Evita was a woman, I am a woman." Or “Sweeney Todd was a barber, I go to the hairdresser." Or “Fosca in Passion should have her moles removed, I know a good dermatologist." That sort of thing.”
― Christopher Durang Volume I: 27 Short Plays
“There are no shared memories anymore. Now, now there’s twitter and email and Facebook and cable and satellite,”
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“If everyone took antidepressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about.”
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“We didn’t identify with rock stars, we identified with Mouseketeers. Annette, Darlene Gillespie, Cubby O’Brien.”
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“You just totally missed the metaphor. I could never love someone who missed the metaphor.”
― Beyond Therapy
― Beyond Therapy
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
― Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
