First of all, the name: “Talkbacks.” What’s up with that? Please call them “audience conversations,” or “dialogues,” or something less confrontational.
Why is there always one person in the audience who seems to be gunning for the playwright? Just curious.
Playwright Romulus Linney famously (or apocryphally) said, “There are “three basic human needs: food, sex, and rewriting somebody else’s play.”
H.G. Wells said, “No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.”
I’ll be facilitating an upcoming reading of other playwrights’ work, and sharing these ideas with them. I sincerely hope their audience dialogues are fruitful, and kind. I’ll have more to share on these experiences in my next post.