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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Anand Thakur
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
If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
ADAM RAPP
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPP
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP
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.
ADAM RAPP
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPP
I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
ADAM RAPP
There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPP
It’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 RAPP
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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