Why Did You Write That? What Does Your Play Mean?
February 15th, 2011There’s that notion, that whole 19th-century notion, which carried over into American playwriting in a lot of the 20th century, that a play should provide lots of questions, and answer them all, so the audience doesn’t have to worry about it after the play is over.
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Any question you can answer is not as interesting as a question you can’t answer.
Edward Albee, It’s Going to be Dangerous Out, An Interview with the Playwright, by Will Eno, American Theatre, Vol. 27, No. 10, December 2010, p.61
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