Critics Praise Three American Playwrights
Sarah Ruhl, Neil LaBute, and Suzan-Lori Parks are writing plays with great creativity and energy.29 July 2007
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Jean (talking on his phone):
"I think that there is a dead man sitting next to me.
(Pause)
I don't know how he died. I'm at a café."
(MUSIC)
Evelyn: So everything is good?
Jenny: Yeah, you know, OK. You?
Evelyn: Pretty great actually. Just studying...working on my art.
Jenny: Right., You‘ve got that big thing that you are doing.
Evelyn: Thesis project, for my degree.
Jenny: And it's going well?
Evelyn: Yeah.
Jenny: What was it again?
Evelyn: I never said.
Jenny: Oh, well that's why.
Evelyn: Right. It's this sculpture thingie.
Jenny: Nice. I think what you have done with Adam it's really great.
Evelyn: What I have done?
Jenny: Just, you know, he's changed.
Evelyn: That's right HE's changed.
Jenny: Of course, I didn't mean that you...
Evelyn: I know, I am just saying, you know, he did the work.
Jenny: Right.
Writer: "Is the rule that I have to keep writing until I think of a play?"
Editor: "There are no rules."
Writer: "What if my mind is blank?"
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