Christy, David - Playwright: biography, information on productions and contact details.
Trevor Griffiths - Writing for theatre, television and cinema since the late 60's. Biography, work, publications and contact information.
Berkoff, Steven - The plays and films of Steven Berkoff, with reviews, photos. Also resources for students including a number of theses available on-line.
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Playwrights "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Playwrights
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Playwrights "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Playwrights
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Playwrights It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Playwrights
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Playwrights I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Playwrights
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Playwrights A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Playwrights
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Playwrights "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Playwrights
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Playwrights In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Playwrights
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Playwrights 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Playwrights
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Playwrights Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Playwrights
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Playwrights Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Playwrights
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Playwrights Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Playwrights
