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Lynn Nottage
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" American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders. "
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" The presence of a bed changes the way people interact. "
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" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "
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" My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. "
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" By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires. "
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" I think of myself as a healing artist. "
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" People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process. "
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" Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson. "
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" We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back. "
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Back
Broadway
Marketing
" I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. "
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Equity
Gender
Reflect
" As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation. "
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Power
" Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs. "
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Protect
Used
" I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going. "
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Human
Keep
" In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. "
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Abandoned
Family
Women
" When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes. "
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America
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" A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.' "
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Small
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" For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories. "
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Experiences
Sharing
Me
" It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people. "
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Art
Beyond
Find
" I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not prepared for 'Ruined' or 'Intimate Apparel' for many different reasons. "
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Moment
Broadway
Sweat
" When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about. "
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You
Thinking
Rich
" I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. "
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Party
Imagination
Dinner
" If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. "
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Anger
Doing
" Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines. "
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Powerful
Think
People
" The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller. "
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Love
Political
Person
" It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. "
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Imagination
Think
People
" It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.' "
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New York
Reading
Distance
" I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected. "
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People
Women
I Am
" By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in. "
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Value
" There's never any ebb in human misery. "
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Any