I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPPI know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPPSomewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
ADAM RAPPI find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
ADAM RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPI find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
ADAM RAPPWhen I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPPI tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPPI’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
ADAM RAPPCriticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPPI don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
ADAM RAPPI’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
ADAM RAPPI think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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