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 RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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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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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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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