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If we make well-crafted plays that express the essence of what it is to be human, then theatre will have a future...
Raymond Bobgan, Artistic Director, Cleveland Public Theatre
AT25: An Eye on the Future, American Theatre, April 2009

Archive for February, 2011


Why Did You Write That? What Does Your Play Mean?

February 15th, 2011

There’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.

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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