Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.