In part two of Jonny’s chat with the legendary Wallace Shawn, they discuss Wally’s awareness of the audience when he’s acting, writing his first play at 10 (about Socrates and his own death), the puppet shows he kept writing until his early 20’s, the pure ecstasy of his early experiences of Eugene O’Neil and knowing Long Day’s Journey had something to say about the secrets in his own family, the part he still hopes to one day play and the influence of O’Neill on Moth Days; moving from puppet shows in people’s living rooms to doing his scabrous anti-capitalist monologue The Fever in other people’s living rooms; and trying to make theatre that is “one tiny influence on people” whilst knowing theatre has its work cut out to influence anyone.
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