All the world's a stage

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players".

That line was written in 1937 - and it couldn't be more relevant today.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players. But there's the illusion, through the archway; it's we, the actors, who are the reality. They are our raw materials. We take their silly little emotions and turn them into art, out of them we create beauty. They are the shadows and we give them substance.

We are the symbols of all this confused, aimless struggling that they call life, and it's only the symbol which is real.

They say acting is only make-believe. That make-believe is the only reality.

W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre, 1937

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