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Scott C. Sickles's avatar

i've only read the first paragraph so far, but I needed to comment. The first time I went therapist shopping, one of the psychologists I spoke to referred to my playwriting as "sublimating." I did not see that therapist ever again. I have no regrets.

The therapist I ended up with, and have been with off and on for 25 years, actually comes to my fuckin' shows. The art always gives him insight.

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Audrey  Cefaly's avatar

Sublimating is the stupidest shit I've read today.

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Timothy Reed's avatar

Sublimating?? As in turning directly from a solid to a gas, bypassing liquid altogether?? I just heard a dominatrix on NPR say, just like a therapist, if you run into your client on the street or in the grocery store you’re supposed to pretend like you don’t know each other and just move along. Same with playwrights?

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Audrey  Cefaly's avatar

100% the same. And if you see them buying squeezable peanutbutter, it's ok to want to call 911, but don't, she's in rehearsal.

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Sandra Cruze's avatar

I have written a musical about Epilepsy. Lazy? Are they nuts. Trying to make people aware vs just sitting in a room with one other person seems like the lazy route. Anyway, now more than ever us "lazy folks must pick up our pen and write write write. Art is already being attacked. The NEA has been instructed to iliminate DEI. Trump has called out people with Epilespy when he went on his hideous rant about the helicopter/airline crash. So that the Epilepsy Foundation had to make a statement to defend people with the brain disorder. We have to speak out. Art is always attacked for it's truthfullness and it's ability to raise awareness and to change hearts and minds.

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T J Elliott's avatar

what a coincidence to read this on the same day that I finally got to an article in the latest dramatist guild magazine where Steven Sondheim answered questions from an audience back in the '90s. He says that playwriting is the hardest art. I'll take Steve's word for it. Thank you for this piece

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Theater Is Hard.'s avatar

Preach. Not for the weak.💪🏽

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