The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.
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.
A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!
There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
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.