Don't make a wall of glass between your play and the people watching. Don't forget they were once children, who enjoyed being read to, or sung to sle… - Sarah Ruhl

Listen to her the way you would listen
to your own daughter
if she died too young
and tried to speak to you
across long distances.

Perhaps we would have more sublime plays if we had more tolerance for and interest in imperfect plays. Because perfect plays are not sublime plays. Shakespeare's plays are weird and wonky and oddly shaped and wonderfully imperfect but sublime. They are as untidy men lime as nature is. Contemporary playwrights are often encouraged to make tidy plays rather than plays with cliffs and torrents

When diseases and stories are chronic, doctors and writers often both run for the hills