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 RAPPThe heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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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 don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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