The plays that I performed in the '70s are not the same plays that I perform today. However, what they have in common is a solid foundation of a story, and good, healthy comedy.
Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.
Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.
If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.
I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.
It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.
I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.
I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.
I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.