Read This When Writing Plays
[An occasional series of playwrighting quotes]
“Performance is woven into the fabric of our lives. It is natural and important to us as breathing. Performance is not merely a habit humans keep repeating across millennia, languages, and cultures. It is more fundamental than that. Performance is what it is to be human. It is the operating system for life.”
Theater is really one large act of listening: the director has to listen to the script—or at least should listen to it—just as the actors listen to it and to one another, and to the director, and just as the audience then listens to the whole performance.”
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