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 IvesPlays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
David IvesNecessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
David IvesWith my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.
David Ives