Each play I write has its own unique origin story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.
A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice... Each play can become many things.
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.
I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.