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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
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.
You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.