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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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