have any work to I just stay home and don’t do, why can’t be actually being paid for my presence. And paid?” I’m then you look up and spent years of your realize you’ve life sitting in the also worth mentioning that same chair. It’s I was also drawing on some events I kept seeing in the news over and over again around the time that I was writing. Events that still show up—and seem to be showing up with even more frequency. MW: Can you tell us about the theme of ambition in the play? BJJ: New York is a city that basically runs on ambition. why an assistant is willing to work for like, $26,000 That’s a year, in a city in which that is definitely the poverty line. People make such sacrifices to work in fields that mostly fulfill some very strange emotional or psychological need that they may not even be fully aware of—needs which may not even be healthy at the end of the day. also I’ve met people who just seem to be ambitious for the sake of ambition–they’re just addicted to the feeling of moving up and ahead in life. In any case, I was interested in the ways that this kind of relationship to the idea of work affects the compromises you make with yourself and your morals. I was also interested in what a ambition is, because writer’s I was writing about a group of people whose job is to basically transcribe life and experience and decide what’s newsworthy or not newsworthy, what lives have value or not, determined by what happens in them.
don’t have any work to do, why can’t I just stay home and be paid?” I’m actually being paid for my presence. And then you look up and realize you’ve spent years of your life sitting in the same chair. It’s also worth mentioning that I was also drawing on some events I kept seeing in the news over and over again around the time that I was writing. Events that still show up—and seem to be showing up with even more frequency. MW: Can you tell us about the theme of ambition in the play? BJJ: New York is a city that basically runs on ambition. That’s why an assistant is willing to work for like, $26,000 a year, in a city in which that is definitely the poverty line. People make such sacrifices to work in fields that mostly fulfill some very strange emotional or psychological need that they may not even be fully aware of—needs which may not even be healthy at the end of the day. I’ve also met people who just seem to be ambitious for the sake of ambition–they’re just addicted to the feeling of moving up and ahead in life. In any case, I was interested in the ways that this kind of relationship to the idea of work affects the compromises you make with yourself and your morals. I was also interested in what a writer’s ambition is, because I was writing about a group of people whose job is to basically transcribe life and experience and decide what’s newsworthy or not newsworthy, what lives have value or not, determined by what happens in them.
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