One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPPWhenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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 think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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You can’t run forever.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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