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Marginalia #2
The Tale of the Hare If I were playing the part of a movie pulp fiction detective (think Bogart’s “Sam Spade”), and a leggy blond perched on the end of my desk asked me to take the “Too Happy for...
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Dramadoodle
“Ideas emerge from plays—not the other way around.” Sam Shepard, born November 5, 1943 The above quote is from the introduction by Ross Wetzsteon to the paperback edition of “Sam Shepard: Fool For...
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Tom Stoppard On Playwriting
Adapted from: Is ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ a Shaggy Dog Story? By Angeline Goreau, The New York Times, August 9, 19982 “Hound” is timeless in the truly pejorative sense . . . incapable of change. It...
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Theresa Rebeck On Playwriting
Adapted from: Playwright Theresa Rebeck likes to tell stories The Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2009 Here’s a plot: Two guys are waiting for somebody big and important to show up. That guy never shows...
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Neil Simon On Playwriting V
Adapted From Paris Review, The Art of Theater No. 10 Interviewed by James Lipton I learned from watching Chaplin films that what’s most funny isn’t a single moment of laughter but the moments that...
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