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Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. Lynn Nottage

Economics Playwrights Minds Smaller Because Getting Shrinking Plays

In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way. Lynn Nottage

Relationship You Learning World School Face Consider Books Distant Way Ways Harsh Those Face-To-Face Direct Most Because Came Years Lectures Very Formative Realities Many Amnesty

My hobby is raising my children. Lynn Nottage

Hobby Children Raising

By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires. Lynn Nottage

Time Fears Unresolved Reached Accumulate Many Desires By The Time

I am a Tony voter; it is an honor that I take seriously. Each season, I enter the process with a degree of enthusiasm and optimism, which dissipates as I slowly plow through show after show. Lynn Nottage

Seriously Honor Degree Enthusiasm Enter Plow Slowly Through Take Voter Am Optimism After Process Which Show Each Season Tony

Broadway is a closed ecosystem. Lynn Nottage

Closed Broadway Ecosystem

A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.' Lynn Nottage

Me Revolution Down Cities Small Factories Investigate Had Calling Bedrock Were Been Led Lot Being Which Many Shut

I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. Lynn Nottage

Gender Country Reflect Broadway Would Like Sort Demographic Equity Season

We use metaphors to express our own truths. Lynn Nottage

Own Our Metaphors Truths Use Express

I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. Lynn Nottage

Myself Political See Touch Always Storyteller Old-Fashioned Plays

My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. Lynn Nottage

For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. Lynn Nottage

Good Me First Tell Good Story First Thing The First Thing Story Thing

It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines. Lynn Nottage

Me Important Lines Very Racial Across

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. Lynn Nottage

Me Conversation Culture Winning Firmly Places Second Pulitzer

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. Lynn Nottage

Family History Women Men Abandoned Generations Were Family History Themes Who

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again. Lynn Nottage

See Write Same Want Wants Again Certainly Who Play

I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it. Lynn Nottage

Learning Say Open Know Always How Trying

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist. Lynn Nottage

Saying You Shape Artist Act Helps

My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters. Lynn Nottage

There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time. Lynn Nottage

Life War Time Experience Way About Triumphant Write Had Part Also Been Continuity Going Just Africa Famine Include

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders. Lynn Nottage

Borders Rarely Outside Deal Material Audiences Very American American Audiences

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