SQN - Sine Qua Non - Issue Two - Journal - Page 29
SINE QUA NON
make that shift towards emotional truth instead of performance? And have there been times
that you faltered in that goal?
FG: |at9s interesting. Well, there is homage; there's being a copycat; and there's being a pale
imitation. |en there's that place of emotional truth that you're talking about.
When I started [writing], I would take scripts from great playwrights and center align [them].
It would take this shape. In the same way you can look like [at] a sound ole and see the peaks
and valleys of it, you can do the same with the play. When I did that, I started seeing how
the dialogue is structured. It taught me the orst early versions of rhythm. So, you notice,