I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
ADAM RAPPI would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
ADAM RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
ADAM RAPPI think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPPI know that something inevitable will happen.
ADAM RAPPI don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
ADAM RAPPI tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
ADAM RAPPI feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPPWhen I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPPI think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPPIt’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 RAPPI 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 RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPPYou have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
ADAM RAPPI find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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