Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
ADAM RAPPMary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
ADAM RAPPSomewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI know that something inevitable will happen.
ADAM RAPPWhen I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPPI 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 RAPPBut 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.
ADAM RAPPI’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 RAPPI’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPPI write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
ADAM RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPYou can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPPI began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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 RAPPThere must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
ADAM RAPPThere’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.
ADAM RAPP