Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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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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But 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.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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