Interviewer: In conversation you sometimes are angrier and more provocative than you seem in your plays.
Wasserstein: My plays are my art and not just self-revelation. Creating a well-made play means you have to round the edges so they fit into the form. Also, the plays are deliberately comedic. Humor masks a lot of anger, and it's a means of breaking up others' pretenses and of not being pretentious yourself.
Wendy Wasserstein, The Art of Theater No. 13, interviewed by Laurie Winer, 1997, in Women At Work Vol. II: Interviews from the Paris Review
Photo taken on the west side of Fifth Avenue somewhere in the 20s I think it was (it was awfully cold that night)
Wasserstein: My plays are my art and not just self-revelation. Creating a well-made play means you have to round the edges so they fit into the form. Also, the plays are deliberately comedic. Humor masks a lot of anger, and it's a means of breaking up others' pretenses and of not being pretentious yourself.
Wendy Wasserstein, The Art of Theater No. 13, interviewed by Laurie Winer, 1997, in Women At Work Vol. II: Interviews from the Paris Review
Photo taken on the west side of Fifth Avenue somewhere in the 20s I think it was (it was awfully cold that night)
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