I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.
My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant tal… - Paula Vogel
My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant tal…
- Paula Vogel
Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so… - Paula Vogel
Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so…
I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see … - Paula Vogel
I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see …
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process. - Paula Vogel
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.
In art as in life, some things need no translation. - Paula Vogel
In art as in life, some things need no translation.
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I on… - Paula Vogel
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I on…
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. - Paula Vogel
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become write… - Paula Vogel
This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become write…
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