Dramaturgy Quotes

“Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use.”
― Arthur Miller

“individuals are concerned not
with the moral issue of realizing these standards, but with
the amoral issue of engineering a convincing impression that
these standards are being realized. Our activity, then, is
largely concerned with moral matters, but as performers we
do not have a moral concern in these moral matters. As
performers we are merchants of morality. Our day is given
over to intimate contact with the goods we display and our
minds are filled with intimate understandings of them; but it
may well be that the more attention we give to these goods,
th e more d is ta n t we feel from them and from those who are
believing enough to buy them. To use a different imagery,
the very obligation and profitablility of appearing always in
a steady moral light, of being a socialized character, forces
us to be the sort of person who is practiced in the ways of
the stage.”
― Erving Goffman

“Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Левски е еманация на българщината в най-висшата ѝ форма”
― Николай Хайтов

“He was not dogmatic enough to believe that you must
have boards and footlights to be within the theater; he carried the stage with him in his heart.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“Religious ideas generally are activated in people’s minds only situationally, and religious action, including the act of expressing religious beliefs or attitudes, mainly is bounded and situational.”
― Mark Chaves