The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPPThe heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPPI think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPPI know that something inevitable will happen.
ADAM RAPPSnow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
ADAM RAPPWhen I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPPI’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
ADAM RAPPObviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
ADAM RAPPBut when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
ADAM RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPI’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
ADAM RAPPI try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPPI find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
ADAM RAPPI 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 RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPPI write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
ADAM RAPPMore often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
ADAM RAPP