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

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 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'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

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

- 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,…

- 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…

- Lynn Nottage

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

- Lynn Nottage