when i started writing plays, it was unselfconscious. i just started listening to the characters.ith "disgraced," i started following my character. in my case, as a playwright, yes. that is the first part. you get a draft. that draft, you start sharing with the actors and you have a director. you work around a table. the play reveals things to you in terms of its form. there was a lot of wisdom in form. you understand the nature of the story you are trying to tell versus the story that wishes to be told. there will be a kind of group knowing of when a moment is not working or does not feel organic. feels like it was necessary for another version of the idea. it is a process. another part of it is sharing it with the audience. i have found in my own experience, i don't actually know what it is i have done until i see it for the first time in front of an audience. that is why the first premiere of a play is often just part of the rehearsal process. the second production is when i know it is right. >> take me to your character and tell me who he is. >> he has changed his name. he is