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"My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana."
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"It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in."

"I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money."

"Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production."

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"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi."

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
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