There's a lot of people in the community who are seeing a play for a first time, and that, to me, is really exciting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment.
If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.
Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.