100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

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One hundred incisive, idiosyncratic essays on life and theater from a massive American playwright

“Don’t send your characters to reform school!” pleads Sarah Ruhl in certainly one of her essays. With titles as varied as “On lice,” “On sleeping in theaters,” and “Motherhood and stools (the furniture kind),” these essays are artful meditations on life within the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on the whole thing in between. The pieces combine admonition, celebration, inquiry, jokes, assignments, entreaties, prayers, and advice: honest reflections distilled from years of working within the theater. They offer candid accounts of what it’s like to be a mother and an artist, at the side of descriptions of how Ruhl’s children’s dreams, jokes, and songs work themselves into her writing. 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write is not only a book concerning the theater. This is a map of a very particular artistic sensibility and a guide for somebody who has chosen an artist’s life.

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