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I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Am Big Big Fan Compelling Deeply Disturbing Exhilarating Fan Had Juliet Just Personally Play Power Romeo Thought Version Very Visceral

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Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Anytime Art Create Hamlet Mean Mess You

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I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Am Art Attracted Beautiful More Shelf Than I Am

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I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Love Theater I Love

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I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Believe Other People Raised Responsibility Suffering I Was Raised

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When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Got How Know Little New New York Rehearsing Remember Starving Would York I Remember

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In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Angeles Each Los Los Angeles New New York Next Other Poverty Separated Wealth York

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I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Accepted Been Boundaries Breaking Could Defying Fabulous Hit Interested Kind Love More Now Program Right Season Story Telling Truth I Love

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As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Beaver Beyond Color Danish Early Family Find Hamlet Human Island Leap Leave Living Look Me Past People Person See Silly Trained Truths Very Whether White

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I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Am Astounding Broadway Color Direct First Horrifying Major Me Person Play Think White I Think I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: September 23rd, 1954

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