ABSTRACT
AFS: You first met A.R.Gurney while you were at Circle Repertory Company ? MOONEY: Circle Rep. Uh-huh. We had play readings every Friday. And then a play that
was read was chosen. If that play was something that the people who had the say were interested in working on, then you could take it to what was called a “pip,” play in progress. Then it was done for two weeks, and the author worked with you and changed and rewrote, and then you presented it for the subscribers as a staged reading or acting as much of it as you could. You used scripts in hand. It was a play in progress. They could see it. And then their comments were invited, and then the playwright rewrote more, and then you had a third reading of it. And then it would go into production, with any luck. So there was a real sort of play development.
