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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.
Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
Arnold Aronson blames it all on the introduction of the chair to the stage. Once you put a chair on the stage, we sit down and have a chat. You know, “Mrs. Tesman, let’s have a little chat.”
Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
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.
Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
Her family was a mirror in which she recognized her reflection.
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
What’s as perfect as a girl stopped dead, midformation? Girl as blank slate. Girl as reflection of your desires, unmarred by her own.
Rebecca Makkai • I Have Some Questions For You: 'A perfect crime' NEW YORKER
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.
Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
Leni saw Mama softening, reshaping her needs to match his, imagining this new personality: Alaskan.
Kristin Hannah • The Great Alone
All children want to be ordinary, and she never was, and that had been difficult – but all adults want to be extraordinary, and now she amplifies her strangeness, delighting in her ignorance of worldly matters and her tendency to speak sometimes in a biblical cadence, telling men she meets that she was born in 1887 (this being the year they dug Bet
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