Playwright Tracy Letts unravels different ages of identity in a single life

TRACY LETTS:

Every time I write a new play, we sit down, we read the thing, and the fear is that people are going to say, this is garbage and they are going to take it and they're going to throw it away and say, you have done something just terrible.

The hope is that they're going to carry me out of the theater on their shoulders, carry me down the street, saying, he's a genius, he's a genius. But the reality is that good, smart people working around me say, OK, let's get to work.

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