If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
From Eric Bogosian
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
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