ASC - Italian association of set designers, costume designers and set decorators. Introduction in English outlining the aims of the group.
Hall of the Puppet Theatre - Biography of Mario Magonio with information on puppets, masks, technical aspects, notes on manipulation and stringing, articles and a list of puppet theatres throughout Italy.
The Living Theatre - Centro Living Europa - Workshops and theatrical group in Rocchetta. Offers workspace, library, bedrooms and facilities for 15 people. The group creates plays which depend on the direct participation of the audience for the outcome.
Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection - Reference library established in 1932 and holding several major collections and archives. Details of the collections, activities and performing arts links. In English and Italian. Rome.
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Theater "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Theater
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Theater All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Theater
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Theater We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Theater
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Theater Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Theater
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Theater Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Theater
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Theater If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Theater
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Theater Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Theater
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Theater "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Theater
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Theater The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Theater
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Theater Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Theater
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Theater Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Theater
