Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Cong… - Lynn Nottage
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Cong…
- Lynn Nottage
When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough tha… - Lynn Nottage
When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough tha…
I'm interested in the moments where the audience is restless. I'm interested in the moments where they lean in and become incredibly engaged: the lau… - Lynn Nottage
I'm interested in the moments where the audience is restless. I'm interested in the moments where they lean in and become incredibly engaged: the lau…
I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we… - Lynn Nottage
I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we…
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful wa… - Lynn Nottage
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful wa…
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. - Lynn Nottage
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the audience reaction." I'm like,… - Lynn Nottage
I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the audience reaction." I'm like,…
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I … - Lynn Nottage
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I …
Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal. - Lynn Nottage
Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.
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