Thespian Thinkers Gifts

Henrik Ibsen,

65 Million Years Ago

'Here's something that should suit your wooden acting style. How do you fancy playing the lead in Pinocchio?'

Tabletop Theatre

The Evolution Of Man.

'What distinguishes man from the lower animals is the ability to make tools.'

"Great, just great! And while you're in here, potchkeeing around with paint, Seymour Rabinowitz in the cave next door is inventing fire already!"

Harriet Walter

Unknowingly, with one swish of his blood soaked mammoth tail he was inflicting pain and suffering on billions of unborn people. Home decorating had been invented.

"I gotta cut you off, Pierre. That's your tenth 'pretend Manhattan' since you got here."

'I just invented the 'chair' - It relieves lower back pain!'

Ventriloquist Grave

'Oh dear. My son's an evolutionary throw forward.'

"An actor ... huh, that’s funny, because you look just like a waiter."

"We're doing a skit of Peter Rabbit at school. I'm the potting soil."

Daniel Day Lewis & George Glasgow

Evolution Solution: Billions of years in the business - We'll guide you through the process, step by step.

Caveman who has just invented the wheel is amazed to see a paper airplane demonstrating the principle of flight.

"I sensed a fine balance between the misery on the stage and the misery in the audience."

"And, finally, to my wife, my love and appreciation for her understanding and critical insights, without whom this project would never have been accomplished."

'The actors guild suspended my membership.'

Comedy, Tragedy and News.

"I'm retired actor Daniel Day Lewis. They thought I was I was good. They don't know how good."

"You feel like a gatherer trapped in a hunter's body?"

'Isn't that rather large for a rabbit?'

'Leonardo's Lament' - 'I have nothing to do.'

Latest support group: British actors who couldn't get a part in the Harry Potter films.

"Well, Clive, what I REALLY want to do it wait on tables."

'-and I suppose you want chips with it?'

Stoics vs. Epicureans.

The great bespeak for Miss Snevellicci

'Dinner will be late... it rained and we had a power outage.'

"To be or not to have been...no, that won't do. To be or not to be, that is the conundrum. Hmmm..."

"Get back down here before you fall and hurt yourself"

Jumbo in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck