Lynn Nottage Quotes
- Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.
- 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…
- A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
- 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…
- I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to…
- Each play I write has its own unique origin story.
- I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and…
- In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
- Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.