BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl

I come into the theater wanting to feel and think at the same time, to have the thought affect the emotion and the emotion affect the thought.

I believe that’s why the theater is actually going to grow in the twenty-first century, because it forces us to slow down. The circadian rhythms are being lost, technology is speeding up, so we have to go somewhere and literally have a one-to-one relationship with the tick-tock of the clock.

I think of each production as a Tower of Babel. Everybody comes in with different training, speaking different languages, and you have four weeks to speak the same language.