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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.

Adam Rapp

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
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
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
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
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
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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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
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 imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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Exciting Fall Free Life Really Screwed Someone Up
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm
My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Always Character Emotional Girlfriend More
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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Last Learn Learned Merely Storyteller Year
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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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 think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
ADAM RAPP

Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
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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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange

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