Actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all . What was the process there . Absolutely. In terms of the African American charact
Something about money that comes up in the play but actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all . What was the process there .
Something about money that comes up in the play but actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all . What was the process there .
Over a period of 3 1 2, 4 years things happen in your personal life and in the world around you that continue to sort of feed into the play. So the no no boy aspect, i just gave him a speech a couple days ago where he says, because i really want to bring up the issue and make it relevant to contemporary times. He says, doesnt anybody care what happened . They took away our rights. Doesnt anybody care . Is the constitution just a piece of paper that Means Nothing that the president can sign another piece of paper and then we lose our citizenship and they can do whatever the hell they wanted to us . Its wrong, it was wrong then, it was wrong now and i dont care what kind of questionnaire it is, ill sign it no no and ill yell it at the president , ill yell it at roosevelt, ill yell it at general dewitt and it matters. It has to matter. And to me its the speech i gave him was in part all just drawn from whats happening i think in the country right now in relationship to the war, who is con
And to me its the speech i gave him was in part all just drawn from whats happening i think in the country right now in relationship to the war, who is considered patriotic, who is considered a traitor, and the point of a play to me is that it isnt just a museum piece, that in fact it does have relevancy right now and that it does kind of spark a certain amount of controversy in relationship to what goes on now. So thats how things that are happening in ones life feed into it. Other things feed into it, too, like my wife and i have been trying to build this house in the Berkeley Hills for about 5 years so all of that also kind of feeds into the play even though it may not surface in the way the characters are building a house, but it may be something about money that comes up in the play but actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to