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A Play Is Fiction And Fiction Is Fact Distilled Into Truth.

I Write To Find Out What I'm Talking About.

It's The Function Of A Playwright To Write. Some Playwrights Write A Large Number Of Plays, Some Write A Small Number.

I Know Playwrights Who Like To Kid Themselves Into Saying That Their Characters Are So Well Formed That They Just Take Over. They Determine The Structure Of The Play. By Which Is Meant, I Suspect, Only That The Unconscious Mind Has Done Its Work So Thoroughly That The Play Just Has To Be Filtered Through The Conscious Mind. But There's Work To Be Done - And Discovery To Be Made.

Art Has An Obligation To Offend