"My artistic mandate up to that point had always been: “I’m not going to talk about things close to myself. I want to go into vital issues about people who you never hear or see”…And I watched my own family’s dynamics, my own dynamics amongst my kin, and the dynamics of how these cultures had merged, and interacted, and clashed. And I just found the absurdity of our familial dynamics..."
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On what steered her towards writing about the personal in her play Familiar in “Danai Gurira Artist Interview” in Playwrights Horizons
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