At an informal guest lecture at Durham Theater Studio, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner encouraged students to write for the same reason he does.
Silence is betrayal.
So much of what is happening politically is being met with silence. Everyone should write. The play depicts a group of artists and political activists struggling to preserve themselves in Berlin during the rise of fascism in the 1930s. Controversial parallels are drawn between Reagan and Hitler. It was important for me to make a statement.