Playwrights Horizons

Perspective
"Trying to explain what a play is about is roughly as effective as trying to explain what your kid is about at a teacher-parent conference." Melissa James Gibson on writing "THIS."

Writing plays feels to me like emitting a primal scream with a smile. It is about expressing what feels urgent, despite the fact that the things that feel most urgent are also typically the things that defy expression—the things, in other words, at which words fail most spectacularly.

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