If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
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He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.
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.
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
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