Stage Managers Quotes

• Toda esta creación es esencialmente subjetiva, y el sueño es el teatro donde el soñador es a la vez: escena, actor, apuntador, director de escena, autor, público y crítico.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Actors, Creation

  "General Aspects of Dream Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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• Escucha al director de escena y sube al escenario cuando te lo digan. Nadie tiene tiempo para tonterías de estrella del rock. A ninguno de los técnicos entre bastidores le importa si eres David Bowie o el lechero. Cuando te comportas como un imbécil, no les impresiona en absoluto la exhibición infantil que podrías pensar que conlleva tu dudoso estatus. Estaban allí horas antes de que montaras el escenario, y estarán allí horas después de que te vayas desmontándolo. Ellos deberían cobrar tu sueldo y tú el suyo.

  Henry Rollins

  Estrellas, Pensamiento, Rocas

  "Black Coffee Blues". Book by Henry Rollins, 1992.

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• There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Responsibility, Theatre

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• Ayudante de director de escena en un teatro de Canterbury, un teatro de representación. Me pagaban poco, pero lo justo para salir adelante. Hacía atrezzo, caminaba y cambiaba decorados, y me di cuenta de que me encantaba.

  Jeremy Irons

  Amor, Edad, Actuación

  "Actor ganador de un Oscar, un Tony y un Emmy". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. 27 de octubre de 2000.

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• En el teatro no hay clases sociales. El pianista de ensayos, el carpintero jefe, el director de escena, la estrella del espectáculo... todos son familia.

  John Kander

  Stars, Theatre, Rehearsal

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• An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

  Estelle

  Actors, Staff, Ifs

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• EMILY: "¿Alguien se da cuenta de la vida mientras la vive... cada, cada minuto?" No. Los santos y los poetas quizá... algunos sí.

  Thornton Wilder

  Doe, Saint, Realize Life

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• Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

  Lee Hall

  Play, Theatre, Trying

  "Songs for a Sunderland sex-farce". Interview with Charlotte Higgin, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

  Adam Rapp

  Ideas, Sometimes, Okay

  Fuente: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

  Brian Blessed

  Drama, School, Assistants

  Fuente: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

  Eli Broad

  Inability, Levels, Problem

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.

  Laurence Sterne

  Responsibility, Goal, Effort

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• You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Ideas, People, Magic

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• Creo que la historia que mejor nos define [a Bud Yorkin] y nuestra relación se remonta al programa de [Dean] Martin y [Jerry] Lewis. Los cuatro directores de escena de ese programa se convirtieron en importantes creadores y directores de televisión: John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn y Bud Yorkin.

  Norman Lear

  Directores, Bud, Historias

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Escuela, Clase, Juego

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

  Rebecca Wells

  Sweet, Forgiving, Praying

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• I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

  Corey Reynolds

  Night, Notes, Wanted

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• We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Years, Play

  Thornton Wilder (1957). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Perfect, Actors

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton", p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Se suponía que los pajes debíamos estar fuera de cámara, invisibles. Pero en un momento vi a un niño que estaba a punto de tirarse por el balcón, así que corrí, lo agarré y lo volví a sentar. Recuerdo que el director de escena me llevó aparte y me dijo: "¿Puedes no volver a hacer eso? Sé que le estabas salvando la vida, pero te tenemos a tiro".

  Anne Sweeney

  Kids, Saving, Down And

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'

  Martin Shaw

  Jobs, Drama, School

  Fuente: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Supongo que son las realidades sumergidas las que dan a los sueños su curioso aire de hiperrealidad. Pero quizá haya también algo más, algo nebuloso, como una gasa, a través de la cual todo lo que se ve en un sueño parece, paradójicamente, mucho más claro. Un estanque se convierte en un lago, una brisa en una tormenta, un puñado de polvo en un desierto, un grano de azufre en la sangre en un infierno volcánico. ¿Qué forma de teatro es ésta, en la que somos a la vez dramaturgo, actor, director de escena, pintor de escenas y público?

  W. G. Sebald

  Sueño, Realidad, Lagos

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• No sé cómo es ahora, pero el ayudante del director de escena tenía que ser suplente en varios papeles. Tenías que estar preparado para salir en cualquier momento si el actor no podía llegar a la obra. No le di importancia.

  Glenn Ford

  Pensar, Jugar, Actores

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