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Quote by Lanford Wilson

“I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.”

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Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson, an American playwright, was born on April 13, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois, and passed away on March 24, 2011. Known for his profound social insight and delicate portrayal of human nature, Wilson's works have won numerous Tony Awards and Pulitzer Prizes. more

“The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.”

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Book:Fool for Love and Other Plays

Source: Fool for Love and Other Plays

“It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.”

Should Heart Understanding Divine

Author:Blaise Pascal

“A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.”