100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

by Sarah Ruhl

Sometimes I think children make good dramaturgs because they are not terribly serious and their boredom mechanism is finely tuned. That is to say, they are bored by plays that aren’t theatrical, and we know they are bored because they scream.