Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"
I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.