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...Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind is a play about delusion. It’s difficult to write a play about delusion, and it’s equally tricky to stage one. It’s usually not too hard to get an audience to relate to a story about sane characters in normal situations, but anybody who stages a play about delusion doesn’t have the benefit of that automatic connection with the audience. Instead, that connection has to be established by the company in other ways: by keeping the play?...
...unhesitatingly honest in a treasurable series of compact character descriptions. Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed to have written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar in 1952, is "a funny, intense, egocentric boy of 27, with a flat nose and bullet head ? he has very little humor and seems quite unaware of anything except the development of his own evident talents." His assessment of Olivier and his wife Vivien...
...every Athena production, on the night of the last dress rehearsal, I write a really dumb poem about the production and send it to the cast/crew lists in order to psych people up for the show. Then, while the cast is warming up at every performance, I give “symbolic gifts”—usually really cheap stuff I buy at CVS that has to do with the show in some way. I guess this has very little to do with the “creative process,” but it gets people excited about...
...amazing experience—not only because of all the wonderful cast and crew members involved, but also because I suddenly started thinking about myself as a writer. I had previously been too afraid of people’s reactions that I didn’t write anything. But after this November experience, I decided that writing was something that was too important to me, that I had to do it without worrying what people thought...
Next year, I’m going to go to New York to write plays and work as a writing tutor. I’ll also probably starve to death. But it’ll be worth it. In ten years, who knows? Probably grad school. Hopefully still writing and living in a city somewhere, eating croissants...