Lynn Nottage quotes
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“Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.”
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“Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.”
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“In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.”
-- Lynn NottageSource : "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.
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“If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.”
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“Each play I write has its own unique origin story.”
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“I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'”
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“I need a release from whatever I'm writing.”
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“I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.”
-- Lynn NottageSource : "Picking Through the Ruins: How Do We Stop The DRC’s War Against Women" by Lynn Nottage, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2009.
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“A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”
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“I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.”
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“African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.”
-- Lynn Nottage
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