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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

Adam Rapp

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.
ADAM RAPP

Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall
I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPP

Certain Know Room Smell Think Want
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
ADAM RAPP

Access Automobile Internet Jet Public Transporation
I 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 RAPP

Anand Thakur
When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Behaving Couple Room Scene
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPP

Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
ADAM RAPP

Advocacy Consumer Criticism Kind Like Literature Should Spend
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
ADAM RAPP

Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
I’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 RAPP

Enough Felt Friend Good Helping Idea Parties Party Really Social Thinking
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.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing

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