There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the underrepresentation of women in theater despite their significant audience presence.
Marsha Norman's statement points out a disparity in the theater industry, emphasizing that while women make up a large portion of the ticket-buying audience, their contributions as playwrights and creators are not reflected in the production of plays. This raises questions about gender equality and the necessity of encouraging female voices in the arts.
In practice
During a panel discussion on gender equality in the arts, using this quote can emphasize the need for increased representation.
If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago.
If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
One of the nice things about the Internet is you can do a comic that's just for Ph.D. students, or for truck drivers, and you get to reach all of them without having to satisfy the other 99%.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
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