AMERICAN THEATRE

OFFSTAGE

What drew you to this project and this character?

There’s something about the way Adam Bock has written this, with such bare bones. It’s such a spare and simple, exquisite style, which makes it quite theatrical. Simple is hard. Extravagant is like, “Oh, look at the flashing lights. Look at this, look at this.” But to make something simple… Aaron Copland or the Beatles make a gorgeous melody in three notes, and you just feel so

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