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George C. Wolfe

George C. Wolfe

American Playwright

Born: Sep 23, 1954

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I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can. George C. Wolfe

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There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell! George C. Wolfe

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I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. George C. Wolfe

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Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. George C. Wolfe

Address Know Stories Theater Should Communities Why Here

Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon. George C. Wolfe

Intrigued Vital Something Point Another Just Inconsequential Phenomenon

I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent. George C. Wolfe

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The best of any artist is in their art. George C. Wolfe

Art Best Any Artist

You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. George C. Wolfe

You Language Way Adjust Evolve Vocabulary Talking Depending Each Actor

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating. George C. Wolfe

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Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are. George C. Wolfe

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If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian. George C. Wolfe

Been Historian Stories

Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.' George C. Wolfe

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Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness but by being available to that which is most unknown, inside the material and inside yourself. George C. Wolfe

Theatre Yourself Sense Think Unknown Kind Inside Silliness About Most Material Ultimately Wonder Achieved Being Which Available Creating

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender. George C. Wolfe

Journey You Surrender Control Every Back Push Lean Audience Go Crafting Want Rhythmic Breathe Play

1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. George C. Wolfe

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To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. George C. Wolfe

Me First Country Musical Real Texture American Boat Show

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