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Ihave often heard playwrights asked what inspired them to write a play. Answers vary. They were invited to write to a brief in collaboration with a director or company. They...
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...difficult to write in their regional dialect. Their answers saddened me. It seemed they’d come to university to learn how to write ‘properly.’ A lot of my students come from...
...Gumball, and they’re quite competitive environments. There’s pressure to have the funniest ideas and lines and I think the competition leads to a good standard of work. Part of the...
...is an essence of memoir. Through writing we come to compassion, and compassion comes from the balancing of dissonant truths. Researching trauma, recently, I discovered that this is known as...
...creativity — a sad, self-fulfilling prophesy in so many ways for those boozy writers who came and went, and come and go still, forever, but never really come back. Neil...
...en la sombra Aparecen los muertos Como luces y frutos Como vasos de sangre Como piedras de abismo Como ramas y frondas De dulces visceras (We bite the shadow And...
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