Quotes by Lynn Nottage - Page 3

As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Broadway
Color
Conversation
Embrace
Excluded
Marginalized
Venues
Commercial
Slowly
Recognize
Regards
Remain
Theaters
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Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce. I think there's a level of fatigue. Artists are tired of having to create work that's then coopted by commercial demands. When you begin souping up the car, the car no longer feels like your own.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Artist
Thinking
Tired
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If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Colour
Serving
African
African Americans
People See Looking
Shaping
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'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Felt
Finished
Managers
Produce
Ruined
Subject Matter
Voice
Wanted
Anomaly
Commission
Somewhat
Explore
Literary
Otherwise
Saying
Subject
Though
Unencumbered
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People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Rehearsal
Initial
Philosophies
Rehearsal Process
Rhythms
Shaping
Voices
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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.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
War
Library
Media
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I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's responsibility to be engaged with the culture. And when the culture is going through turmoil, I think an artist can't ignore that. I don't feel that every artist has to be politically engaged, but I can't imagine that you can be an active participant of this culture and not in some way reflect that in the work you are creating.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Artist
Responsibility
Thinking
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