All the arts, particularly theater, play an important part of society.

Theater mirrors society, and this play reflects our society and our community. The cast and I have been profoundly affected during our time working with this material,

a theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum.

In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theater. The play is finished, but the echoes remain.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

It stayed so true to the play. It felt like you were in the theater all over again. Everybody was clapping after they performed each number.