//store the quotations in arrays
quotes = new Array(14);
authors = new Array(14);
quotes[0] = "The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.";
authors[0] = "Oscar Wilde";
quotes[1] = "Brevity is the soul of wit.";
authors[1] = "William Shakespeare";
quotes[2] = "It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.";
authors[2] = "Tallulah Bankhead";
quotes[3] = "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.";
authors[3] = "William Shakespeare";
quotes[4] = "My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.";
authors[4] = "Gwyneth Paltrow";
quotes[5] = "The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal.";
authors[5] = "Christopher Meloni";
quotes[6] = "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.";
authors[6] = "William Shakespeare";
quotes[7] = "Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.";
authors[7] = "Juliette Binoche";
quotes[8] = "What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.";
authors[8] = "Lusia Strus";
quotes[9] = "I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.";
authors[9] = "Brenda Blethyn";
quotes[10] = "If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.";
authors[10] = "William Shaksepeare";
quotes[11] = "Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.";
authors[11] = "Eugene Ionesco";
quotes[12] = "A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.";
authors[12] = "Dario Fa";
quotes[13] = "From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.";
authors[13] = "Bertold Brecht";
//calculate a random index
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);
//display the quotation
document.write("<DL>\n");
document.write("<i><DT>" + "\"" + quotes[index] + "\"\n</i>");
document.write("<DT>" + "-- " + authors[index] + "\n");
document.write("</DL>\n");
//done