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The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

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.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

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.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.