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When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

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I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

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I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft…

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The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

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I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is,…

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