A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.
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A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.
Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.
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