American - Playwright | September 23, 1954 -
Racists are deficient as human beings.
George C. Wolfe
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Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form.
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I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'
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To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country.
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I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.
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I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
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I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.
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I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.
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When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.
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In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.
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I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.
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I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can.
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