“With a play you get instructions. Stage directions. Dialogue. You get to live the most intense moments of a life over a…

“With a play you get instructions. Stage directions. Dialogue. You get to live the most intense moments of a life over and over again, with all the boring bits left out. And you get to practise. For weeks. And you’re applauded. Then you get changed. Leave through stage door. Bus home. Back to real life. All the boring stuff left in…
Make these friendships with people, a little family, fall in love onstage and off and then it’s over and you don’t see them again.”