Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.
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
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings. - 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.
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
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.
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…
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…
I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these … - David Ives
I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these …
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