William Toman Quotations

Perkins' book covers one angle that people don't think about. We have military weapons that we use around the world to force governments to go our way, but one thing they don't realize is that we use debt as a weapon as well. This book shows how, over the course of time, we've used international aid as a way of indebting nations.

We continue to make adjustments. The show is much better as a result. It's a difficult and challenging job for an actor, because you're continually in rehearsal. Ideally, it would be great to open and do shows being confident that we know what we're doing. In our process, that's difficult. But in another way it's great, because people have to be quick on their toes and flexible about improvisation.

It's episodic. One episode takes place here in the States, another in Ecuador, another in Indonesia. Each writer took one region and wrote that section of the show.

It's hard to get your footing, because it's continually changing during the rehearsal process. It's like directing a workshop show, which also performs. It's hard to have a vision of how to mount the production, since it's always shifting.