What I Mean By An Educated Taste

I Do Think, Or Rather I Sense That There Is A Relationship - At Least In My Own Work - Between A Dramatic Structure, The Form And Sound And Shape Of A Play, And The Equivalent Structure In Music. Both Deal With Sound, Of Course, And Also With Idea, Theme.

When You're Dealing With A Symbol In A Realistic Play, It Is Also A Realistic Fact. You Must Expect The Audience's Mind To Work On Both Levels, Symbolically And Realistically. But We're Trained So Much In Pure, Realistic Theater That It's Difficult For Us To Handle Things On Two Levels At The Same Time.

The Difference Between Critics And Audiences Is That One Is A Group Of Humans And One Is Not.

There May Be Lots Of Questions That Anybody - An Actor Or A Director Or Anybody - Can Ask About A Character In A Play Of Mine That Are Not Answered In The Play, But If It's A Question That I Don't Think Is Relevant, I Don't Bother About It. There's No Reason To Ask It.

Well, When You Write About People Of A Certain Age ... We Are In A Postsexual Situation. If I Write About Younger People Then I Write Sexually, Because Their Drive Is Sexual. It Depends Upon The Circumstances.