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David Ives [1950-0] American

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Playwright

David Ives is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for writing comic one-act plays, a reputation which resulted in the New York Times referring to him as the "maestro of the short form".

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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.		101
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.		102
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.		103
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'		104
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.		105
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.		106
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.		107
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.		108

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