"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic"
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Her insistence on “again and again and again and again” isn’t just emphasis; it’s imitation. The rhythm mimics the monotony of reruns, binge loops, and franchised performances that prize consistency over risk. Underneath is an actor’s hard-earned preference: theatre demands you meet the audience where they are tonight, with the voice you have tonight, inside the room’s particular weather. A laugh lands differently. A pause stretches. A mistake becomes a new truth. That’s not a bug; it’s the point.
Cattrall’s context matters. She’s a performer known to many primarily through screen work that can be replayed endlessly, memed, clipped, and flattened into “iconic” moments. Theatre offers her a kind of privacy inside publicity: the work happens and disappears, leaving only memory and rumor. “Organic” is also a sly rebuke to perfectionism. In live performance, you don’t get to airbrush the human out of it. You have to let the organism breathe.
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"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theatre-cant-be-done-again-and-again-and-again-23450/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






