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puttering around the subject of suicide and making plans as if
I’m more interested in the mundane

...What seems a directorial intrusion of the kind James Houghton would eschew in rehearsal of Curse of the Starving Class is an option granted by the playwright. Hughes says during a break :
      I have a confidence about . . . [the play’s] power and structure, having done it once. . . . I can explore what drew me to the play in the first place: the disorienting phenomenon of people puttering around the subject of suicide and making plans as if they were for a vacation or a dinner date. So I’m more interested in the mundane. And “beach ball” seems less mundane than “Frisbee.”

ex Susan Letzler Cole, Playwrights in Rehearsal : The Seduction of Company (2013) : 39 : link
or (with better luck?) via archive.org : link
 

9 October 2025