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Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. Lynn Nottage
People Weddings Deaths Celebrations Where Happening Conflicts Congo Even
I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage. Lynn Nottage
Conversation Theatre Stage Final Way Taboo Reluctance Open Always Real American Race Describe Honest
I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage. Lynn Nottage
People Stage Way Always Which Working Working People Portrayed
I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. Lynn Nottage
Work Political Looking Ideology Think Lynn Way Say See One-Way Having Write Push Another Audience Am Political Ideology Certainly Who Play Extension
The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller. Lynn Nottage
Work Love Me Political Power Williams Introduced Wilson Tennessee Tennessee Williams August Arthur Person Craft Taught To Love Really Who Whose Miller
If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white. Lynn Nottage
You People Looking Few White Find See About Colour Shaping Head Major Institutions Talking Audiences Very American African African Americans Themselves Who Large Serving Position
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. Lynn Nottage
You People Think Imagination Strictly Way Easier Characters About Truthful Than Representing Whether Much Your Conjure
I think of myself as a healing artist. Lynn Nottage
Myself Healing Think Artist
It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective. Lynn Nottage
Joy Amazing Perspective Stage Playwrights Broadway Join Through Glass Female Fresh Ceiling Legacy Break Who Necessary Bringing
In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life. Lynn Nottage
Life Teacher Me Woman Theatre College My Life First Year Few Playwriting Possibility Introduce Seemed Touched Directly Could Had Remote Until She First-Person Up Very Forge Role Person Role Models Models Senior Senior Year Inaccessible Paula Then Notion Who Actually Career
I am a storyteller by trade. Lynn Nottage
Trade Am Storyteller
I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media. Lynn Nottage
Women Way Those Telling Find Remain Mainstream Mainstream Media Particularly Committed Often African Stories Media
In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. Lynn Nottage
Listening Become Had Terms Narratives Came Which Bodies Extent
I try to be led by my curiosity. Lynn Nottage
Try Led Curiosity
I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization. Lynn Nottage
Man People Black President Television Would Through Self-Actualization Wonder Begun Film Film And Television Imagining
I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. Lynn Nottage
Woman People Those Color Outside Mainstream Very Often Dwelling Happen Interested Who
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson. Lynn Nottage
Music Writing Before Jazz Intimate Composer Performer Robinson Scott American List Listen While Create Apparel Start Loaded Set
I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release. Lynn Nottage
Time Ruined Release Someplace Wrote Vera How Brain Very Same Just Same Time Dwelling Heavy Functions Stark Need
Women like silent men. They think they're listening. Marcel Achard
Women Listening Men Think Silent Like
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. Marcel Achard
People Out Find Give Look Accept Lecture Stopped Tolerate Ear Watches Raise
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. Marcel Achard
Home Man Marriage Too Late Sometimes Too Late Risk Risky He Come Greater Even Early Pose
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms. Martin McDonagh
Art Theatre Thought Worst Write Because Were Art Forms Option Forms Really Reason Initially Last Plays
When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up. Martin McDonagh
Love Theatre Cinematic Saw Way Bit Kid Out Tried Brought Something More Never Make Opposite Up Very Same Just Being Against Movies Film Started Plays
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right. Martin McDonagh
Good You Game Writing Own Action Think Unless Never Know End Get Going Blueprint Story Should Film Play Right
I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason. Martin McDonagh
Theatre Stuck Fell Well Because Felt Doing Same Reason
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. Martin McDonagh
Day You Director Every Day Word Finished Control Stage Every Playwright Too Cast Finished Product Almost Over Infinite Stage Play Cut Product Rehearsals Play Amount
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