In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPWhen it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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I 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.
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