For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.
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