What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.
The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
