1、"I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances."——W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado
实在对不起大家,但是,这个世界是不公正的,只有在戏剧演出中美德才会胜出。——W.S. Gilbert(1836-1911),英国剧作家
2、"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being." ——Oscar Wilde
我认为戏剧是最伟大的艺术形式,是一个人能够与别人分享关于人之为人感受的最直接的方式。——爱尔兰文学家王尔德
3、"The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive."——John Steinbeck, Once There Was a War
戏剧是世界上唯一一种这样的社会设制,它垂危4000年但迄今未断气。让戏剧继续活下去,需要坚韧不拔、忠贞不渝的人。——-斯坦贝克,美国作家,1962年诺贝尔文学奖得主
4、"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it."——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
我恨不得戏剧舞台狭小得如同绳索舞所用的细绳一样,这样能力欠缺者就不敢踏上舞台了。—— ----德国大文豪歌德
5、"The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart." ——Marsha Norman
戏剧是一种社团性事件,好比教会。剧作家构想出的作品好比弥撒,不过是表演给很多人看的。她写出的东西就是祈祷词,其实正是人心的向往渴望。——Marsha Norman,美国女剧作家、编剧、小说家