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.
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“Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.”
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