The play - For Love by David Fuks
Part 2 of an Intimate Afternoon with David Fuks. This one-act play reading was Directed by Sarah Lucht and features actors Erin ...
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Search every verified David Fuks interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. On July 25, 2024, David Fuks presented a reading of his one-act play *For Love*, directed by Sarah Lucht. The play is set in 1970 and 2002, centering on characters Nah and Jerry and their family dynamics, including themes of tradition, sacrifice, and survival. Fuks noted that some "impulsive behaviors" in the play are based on true events, including a revelation about a mother and a discovery of another wife and child. In remarks following the reading, Fuks attributed a quote to his father, stating that when asked how he was able to start over, his father replied, "for love," explaining that meeting his mother allowed him to love again and "saved me." Fuks also described a character's obsessive-compulsive disorder as a response to the chaos of the outside world, saying that if the world is chaotic, "you must make everything in your home... predictable, always to conform to what will keep you safe."
“I once asked PA how he was able to start over to make another family or to make a family after all he had been through. No, he said, for love. When I met her mother and I could love again, it saved me.”
“Ma's moment of sacrifice saved her life. It made no sense. The arbitrary nature of survival, the chaos that the world had become, has always stayed with her. Her obsessive compulsive disorder makes sense if the world outside your home is chaos, you must make everything in your home, everything that you can control, pre...”
Part 2 of an Intimate Afternoon with David Fuks. This one-act play reading was Directed by Sarah Lucht and features actors Erin ...
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