“I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
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Song Come on Home.
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People en Espanol magazine (April, 2004)
2007, 2008
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"Coming up Close"
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Timebends : A Life (1987)
Context: The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there — it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”
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Interviewed by James Goddard and David Pringle (1975)