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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

Adam Rapp

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 RAPP

Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
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
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.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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 RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPP

Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPP

Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPP

Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place
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
I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
ADAM RAPP

Focus Focused Rigorous Scheduling Show Time
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPP

House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPP

Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPP

Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
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

You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

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