Theatre
Theatre being his first 'love', he is a noted farceur and has won Best Actor awards for his appearances in Ray Cooney farces Not Now Darling; Two Into One and Out of Order. Other memorable productions have been leading performances in There's a Girl in My Soup; An Enemy of the People; Major Barbara; The Scarlet Pimpernel; That Good Night and Quartet.
He was also a leading figure in the fight to launch the Theatre Museum in London's Covent Garden in the 1980s.
In 2007, Sinden embarked on a UK and European theatre tour to talk about his life, work and anecdotes in An Evening with... Sir Donald Sinden. Produced by his son Marc this included, on 8 November 2007 (as part of Marc's British Theatre Season in Monaco) a performance in front of HSH Prince Albert of Monaco (the son of Grace Kelly, his co-star in Mogambo) at the Théâtre Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”
—Enid Bagnold (1889–1981)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)