When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say."
"Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise."
"What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?"
"You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another."
In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.
Tag: improvisation playwriting sam-shepard
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
Vincent H. O'NeilTag: writing murder theater mystery acting writing-tips playwright directing playwriting playwrights books-for-writers
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
Vincent H. O'NeilTag: love writing murder sex theater mystery acting seduction girlfriend directing playwriting
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.
Tag: change interview theater playwriting
Making Life means making trouble
George Bernard ShawTag: playwriting pygmalion
How many plays have been written in France?' Candide asked the abbe.
'Five or six thousand.'
'That's a lot,' said Candide. 'How many of them are good?'
'Fifteen or sixteen,' replied the abbe.
'That's a lot,' said Martin.
Tag: humor playwriting
YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.
Tony KushnerTag: acting playwright playwriting theatre-quotations
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.
Romulus LinneyTag: screenwriting creative-writing playwriting
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