Jill

“The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.”
― David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

“The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.”
― David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

“However much our quotidian cares consume us, our dreamtime is too valuable, and will be devoted to problems not susceptible to rational consideration.”
― David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”
― Aristotle, Poetics: with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets