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.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
ADAM RAPPI imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPPAnd there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPPSo I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
ADAM RAPPThere must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
ADAM RAPPI 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 RAPPI’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
ADAM RAPPGrief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
ADAM RAPPWhen I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPPYou don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPPMy characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPPThe scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPPWhen it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPPOne of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPPMary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
ADAM RAPP