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I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and Laura Charmichael, directed by Jamie Lloyd. It's one of my favourite plays by one of my favourite playwrights.
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The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
Nelson Algren
Life
Faith
Class
Denial
Playwrights
Enough
Has-Been
Strongly
Writers
Comfort
Imposed
Been
Sources
Off
End
Itself
American
Personal
Essence
Middle
Them
Cut
American Writers
Deeper
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'
Tom Stoppard
Love
Saying
Theatre
Free
Playwrights
Back
Email
Visit
Would
Support
Like
Announcing
Wrote
Said
Got
Were
Existence
Yes
America
Wanted
Us
Asked
England
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.
August Wilson
Myself
Remember
Looking
Thinking
Playwright
Playwrights
Too
Must
Minneapolis
Since
Fellowship
Around
Won
Sitting
Sixteen
Center
Room
Sent
Found
Play
There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.
Dennis Christopher
Great
Playwrights
Tremendous
Complex
Characters
Directors
Leading
Always
Proud
Yeah
Lot
Very
Done
Rewarding
Theater
Things
Plays
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Ethel Merman
Playwrights
Dramas
Considered
Out
Concerned
Understand
Person
As Far As
Anything
Turn
Far
Average
Average Person
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
Garry Hynes
Writing
Country
National
Encouragement
Playwrights
Corners
Ability
Fact
Exceptional
Part
Also
Make
Dialogue
Ireland
Irish
Did
Getting
Theater
While
Younger
Produced
Really
English
Keep
Four
Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.
Gene Saks
God
You
Playwright
Playwrights
Immediately
More
Protective
Read
Hear
Than
Wants
Naturally
Wary
Play
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
George C. Wolfe
Success
Achieve
Black
Playwrights
Musicals
Has-Been
Generally
Allowed
Been
Which
Realism
Social
Realm
I think more than anything, you should do what you love. If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.
Juliet Rylance
Love
You
Writing
Try
Think
Playwrights
Television
Out
Find
Seek
Classical
More
More Than Anything
Do What You Love
New
Doing
Than
What You Love
Modern
Anything
Theater
Places
Much
Should
Working
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Companies
Groups
Film
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade
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Bottom
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Lot
Up
Bunch
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Flat
Script
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