Stephen Adly Guirgis: Finding balance, finishing the ‘Hat’
From the article:
"Stephen Adly Guirgis had written only 20 or so pages of "The [Expletive] With the Hat" when he was tempted to abandon the play. Not because writing is a species of torment for him, though it is, or because he prefers acting "about a billion times more," though he does. The problem looming in his path, shortly before his New York-based theater company gave a reading of the script for the first time, was that he had already spent so much of his playwriting career sketching similar terrain."
"Stephen Adly Guirgis had written only 20 or so pages of "The [Expletive] With the Hat" when he was tempted to abandon the play. Not because writing is a species of torment for him, though it is, or because he prefers acting "about a billion times more," though he does. The problem looming in his path, shortly before his New York-based theater company gave a reading of the script for the first time, was that he had already spent so much of his playwriting career sketching similar terrain."
