You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
ADAM RAPPI appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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