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Playwright answers "why this play now"
it's our favorite question
When submitting a play to a development or production opportunity, there’s one question that consistently rises like a hungry ghoul from the application, its wide fanged grin whispering menacingly: why this play? why here and why now?
Why this play now?
Because I am alive and have an idea and want to write it
It’s actually not this play now, it’s this play eight years ago but it got stuck in theatre development hell
Money, please!!!!
How about YOU pick it and tell ME why this play now
look maybe I’m just suspicious and burnt out but it kind of feels like you want me to do your marketing work for you with this question
Riddle me this - why Shakespeare now
I actually don’t like this play now, but I looked at your production history and you only seem to produce work about historically disenfranchised people’s trauma, so here’s mine
Why Art Ever
*thanks Matt Volk for this joke like two years ago