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" I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world. "
Lynn Nottage
Playwright
Contemporary
World
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" For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. "
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Me
" I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. "
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Touch
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" It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines. "
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Me
Very
" The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration. "
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" My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here. "
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" In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. "
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" The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax. "
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" I think of myself as a healing artist. "
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" Each play I write has its own unique origin story. "
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Own
Play
" The presence of a bed changes the way people interact. "
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Bed
Changes
People
" 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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American
Remember
Parents
" 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
" I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. "
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Which
Way
Poverty
" 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
" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "
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Past
History
Love
" By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority. "
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Run
Large
White
" 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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Beginning
Woman
Power
" The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America. "
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America
Lived
Today
" I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. "
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I Am
Think
Looking
" I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. "
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Mother
Warrior
Woman
" By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires. "
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Many
Time
Unresolved
" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "
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Segregation
Last
Stage
" I am a storyteller by trade. "
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Am
Storyteller
Trade
" 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
" I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization. "
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Wonder
Man
Television
" I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze. "
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Sitting
Mother
" Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power. "
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Power
Standing
Up
" I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway. "
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Theatre
Home
" I try to be led by my curiosity. "
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Curiosity
Led