Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhlis an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career...
playwright woman women
Any woman who is a playwright is already a feminist.
interesting people would-be
I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
daughter mother father
A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
flower being-sad just-being
There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.
childhood catharsis wounds
Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
portraits good-enough paint
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.
important sitting sitting-down
Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.
race world partners
We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.
thinking insane interviews
I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.
thinking males way
I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.