“You know what’s so fascinating about plays, Chris? It’s making harmony out of chaos. You start with a bunch of mismatched actors and an empty stage and an auditorium with five hundred empty seats and a mess of threadbare props and costumes and this impossible deadine and you go to work—and suddenly it’s opening night, and if you’ve done your job, everything comes together, including the audience. I mean if the play works, it draws the audience into it. Onstage you can feel the five hundred people breathing with you. You feel this great sense of order and understanding.”
Jon Hassler, The Love Hunter (courtesy of Mrs. T)