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• I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

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  Thinking, Play, People

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• There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

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  Death, Wall, Moving

  Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.82, Candlewick Press

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• Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

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  Real, Book, Writing

  Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.117, Candlewick Press

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• A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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  Writing, Typical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

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  Running, Sky, Forever

  Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.45, Candlewick Press

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

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  Grief, Rain, Heart

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

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  Heart, Doctors, Eggs

  Adam Rapp (2012). “The Children and the Wolves”, p.9, Candlewick Press

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• I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

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  Actors, Designer

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

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  Couple, Actors, Rooms

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

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  Thinking, Play, Littles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

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  Party, Thinking, Helping

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• I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

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  Cutting, Hair, Clothes

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• What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

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  Years, Lasts, I've Learned

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

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  Thinking, Authorship, Working It

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

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  Together, Actors, Rooms

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.

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  Challenges, Pay, Bills

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.

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  Writing, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

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  People, Schedules, Answers

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• When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

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  Fun, Laughing, Rehearsal

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

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  Brother, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

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  Jobs, Hate, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

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  Coffee, Down And, Way

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

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  Lying, Actors, Process

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

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  Ideas, Directors, Stealing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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