"I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers."
"But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce."
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Source: The Critic On My Shoulder by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.
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