I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
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.
I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
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