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Edd
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 01:43 am |
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What's one of your favorite things about being a playwright? Be honest. I'll go first.
I'm terrible about thinking of the right thing to say at the appropriate moment. The perfect response comes a day too late. I don't think I'm generally thought of as being as witty as I'd like to be. You know, Oscar Wilde witty. So, one of my favorite things about being a playwright is that, by compressing time, I can write seemingly witty, or in the least, clever characters who, in a symbiotic way, reflect positively on my inability with the quick retort. That truly tickles me. Too shallow?
~Edd
PS - I hope the comma police don't get me.
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Basso
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 02:24 am |
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Damn, we have to be honest? Hmm. Well, when I began wanting to write, and looking forward to the process of writing, I also began to look forward to other aspects of my life that had become rather perfunctory. I began loving the outdoors more, and wanting to have sex all the time. Perhaps that is the reverse of what happens to most people, but things tend to go like that for me. So, writing opened up my soul, and that in turn created even more momentum for me to write. Oh, heck, now that I think about it more, I am convinced that my soul opened up first, then I began to write. I was sure I had a very fine reason until I began typing it out, now it feels all a muddle. In any event, since beginning to write in semi-earnest my sex life has improved immeasurably. And you thought your reason was shallow!
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katoagogo
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 03:43 am |
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bkahn
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 04:34 am |
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Is free beer a Connecticut tradition? Here in New York City, only once did someone offer to buy me a drink, but it turned that out she wanted to find out if the leading lady in my play was really gay and would go out with her.
But seriously...
The following are from recent grant applications I wrote:
Completing the writing of a play provides a sense of accomplishment as well as relief.
Collaborating with other artists in a production is the reason I write plays instead of novels or poetry.
One of my special times is load-in, when I sit in the house and watch the designers, technicians and crew create onstage what I wrote on the page.
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 02:09 pm |
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...sitting in the audience and just watching.
Honestly.
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singsational_playwright
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 02:59 pm |
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Hmmmmm...My favorite thing about being a playwright? I think my very favorite thing would be seeing my characters come to life on stage. I have written short stories and even started writing a novel at one point, but those characters always seemed dead to me, while characters in my plays always seem far more alive, perhaps because there is always a possibility that once a play is complete it may be produced, and then those characters DO come to life! The two times I have been produced were the most exciting times of my life (ok, my wedding day was fantastic too.) There's nothing quite like watching actors breathe life into characters who you created.
The pen is mightier than the sword,
Iris
"If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think."
- Euegne Ionesco
"Writing has...been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier and freer." - Tennessee Williams
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katoagogo
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 05:12 pm |
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bkahn wrote:
Is free beer a Connecticut tradition? ]
All the time. Lots of free wine too. Occasionally a single malt.
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Shanahan
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 05:45 pm |
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timmy wrote: ...sitting in the audience and just watching.
Honestly.
A-freakin-MEN!
People never believe me when I say that this is my biggest payoff--the moment when the people around you get it. When the first laugh lands right where it should. Where the intent silences fall in the right places. When the actors and the audiences are clearly having fun and it's all because of what I've created. That's a serious drug to which I am seriously and savagely addicted.
I just sat through three performances of my play Dinner for Several, and the rush was the same every time. It never gets old.
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