American - Playwright | 1964 -
I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.
Lynn Nottage
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Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.
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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 stage is the last bastion of segregation.
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'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.
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Replace judgment with curiosity.
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Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.
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For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.
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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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I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless.
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When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.
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If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.
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