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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

Adam Rapp

Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPP

Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere
I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
ADAM RAPP

Character Gun Happen Writing
We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPP

Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
ADAM RAPP

Advocacy Consumer Criticism Kind Like Literature Should Spend
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
ADAM RAPP

Against Direct Fight Going Learn Like Should Started Think
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
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
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.
ADAM RAPP

Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPP

Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPP

Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPP

Exciting Fall Free Life Really Screwed Someone Up
I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
ADAM RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing

I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

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