Learning How to Listen

Learning How to Listen

For Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, playwriting is akin to religion. “I think it has to do with the ritual aspect of it,” she told Tricycle. “You’re all coming together, a group of people is ideally feeling something at the same time, and you’re conjuring an invisible world through the seen world.” As a playwright, Ruhl has long been fascinated by the relationship between art and religion, as well as the parallels between the role of presenc…