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I Didn't Knowingly Meet A Conservative Until, To My Shame, I Was 60 Years Old And Sat Down And Said, 'wow, I Don't Understand What This Guy's Talking About, But He Has A Great Civility About Him. Perhaps I Better Investigate This Thing.'

A Play Is Basically A Long, Formalistic Polemic. You Can Write It Without The Poetry, And If You Do, You May Have A Pretty Good Play. We Know This Because We See Plays In Translation. Not Many People Speak Norwegian Or Danish Or Whatever Guys Like Ibsen Spoke, Or Russian - Yet We Understand Chekhov And The Others.

You Can't Write About History Without Writing About Politics At Some Point. History Is About Movements Of People. 'what Is Criminality And What Is Government' Is A Theme That Runs Through Every History.

If The Scene Bores You When You Read It, Rest Assured It Will Bore The Actors, And Will Then Bore The Audience, And We're All Going To Be Back In The Breadline.

People May Or May Not Say What They Mean... But They Always Say Something Designed To Get What They Want.