I scrawled these answers in my notebook the other day (yes, I was on the subway...like I said, lately the subway is where the thinking happens). So far, here's what I've got:
PLAYS I WANNA SEE (SO PLAYS, MAYBE, THAT I WANNA MAKE)
- Plays where people like me are friends with people like my friend Brian (ie, where cross-racial friendships and cross-gender friendships are matter-of-fact) -- stages full of people who are white and black and yellow and brown...and where that isn't the POINT, it's INCIDENTAL. Plays that look like my LIFE that way.
- Big, fat, sprawling plays with operatic monologues, messy fights that destroy the stage, a whole world full of characters, where the world is changed and the audience cries.
- The most intimate play imaginable...what would that look like?
- A play that exposes EVERY hypocrisy that pisses me off.
- Hilarious plays with great parts for women!
- Beautiful plays set outside, written outside, with huge sections of silence and magic and mysterious, gorgeous imagery.
THINGS I WANNA KNOW, THINGS I CAN'T ANSWER
- How do you deal with your beauty fading, your power fading, with getting old?
- How do you be a good father?
- How do you survive high school?
- How do you survive your own fierce desires?
- When do you give up?
- How do you be alone?
- How do you move past your own insecurity?
- Why am I so depressed?
- How do I raise good sons?
- How does confession work?
- How will I survive my own parents aging and eventual death?
- How do you survive the death of a spouse (or CHILD!)?
- How do you forgive people who have hurt you really, really badly?
- How do you deal with your ex's new partner?
And (BIG QUESTION)
How can I make theater
to RADICALLY forge community
across time and space?
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