Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort … - David Ives
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort …
- David Ives
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story… - David Ives
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story…
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. - David Ives
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. - David Ives
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. - David Ives
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. - David Ives
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet… - David Ives
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet…
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. - David Ives
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those m… - David Ives
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those m…
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