“For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became so fascinated by the theatrical experiment and the weirdness of theatrical space, so now all my plays start with space and stage picture and setting - or container is maybe the better way to put it.” ThinkingWayPlayCharacterSpaceStageMinesTheaterExperimentsSettingSettingsFascinatedBetter WaysTheatricalWeirdnessContainers Author:Annie Baker
“I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.” ThinkingFeelsAudienceBecomingRight NowTheaterWittyObsessionLoudPaceIrrelevantVery Witty Author:Annie Baker
“I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.” FeelsWritingPlayMy OwnCollegeTheaterConventionalDowntown Author:Annie Baker
