The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
From Peter Shaffer
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'
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