My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
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was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.Elfriede Jelinek
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.
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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
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I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
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I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
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That started very early on, and then I guess I tried to close up this fissure with something that was accessible to me, and all I had was writing.
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