Little Dramatist Gifts

"I haven't had the heart to tell him vaudeville's dead."

'I'm playing a crowd member in the Easter pageant. I was going to play Pilate 'til I found out I'd have to wash my hands.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

Southwark Fair.

"Objection, Your Honor! Alleged killer whale."

Four children playing the flute.

Canned laughter for sale in Theatrical Supplies shop.

'You're doing a play in kindergarten?'

Jack-a-box in the theatre.

Comedy and tragedy masks

Tabletop Theatre

A man taking a bow

'The classic masks of Comedy and Tragedy, or as they're now known, emoticons.'

Henrik Ibsen,

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

Alas poor Daisy, I knew her well!

"Leon, honey, you break all the rules of dramaturgy."

"I thought your show-and-tell was really brave."

'Hard to follow...'

'Shakespeare, what do you say we write a comedy?'

Take a bow!

'Look Chaucer, there goes that rotten plagiarist Shakespeare again!'

"Less hair doesn't mean less work!"

The Modern Godot

John Masefield.

'Guess what I'd like to see disappear next.'

'Shakespeare's Hamlet word for word - and I who always thought it was a crazy joke.'

James Barrie.

Eugene Ionesco

'Just tell him two quarts of milk and a pint of cream, Will- it doesn't have to be a sonnet.'

Henrik Ibsen

Oscar Wilde

"At last! They've begun downsizing the top level."

'Your dilemma is fabulous. Imagine what a dramaturge could do with it.'

Euripides