An Interview with Christopher Chen a San Francisco Local

By: KATIE CRADDOCK

Lauren Yee: Chris, where are you right now?

Christopher Chen: I’m in San Francisco right now, in the Outer Sunset District, which is also which also happens to be the setting of The Headlands. So I’m living inside the play right now.

LY: What is it like outside? The weather reports are making national news.

CC: The winds are huge. A while ago, the wind was pretty scary.

LY: San Francisco weather makes me think about noir. There’s a certain feel to San Francisco—the air and the weather feel different than other places.

CC: There really is. Obviously, there’s the fog. And the hills—you can see the fog banks from the hills, or the hills can hide things, just like the fog does. All the little neighborhoods have their own little mysteries going on inside. San Francisco is such a noirish city, especially the Sunset District, with all its kindof-but-not-really-uniform, suburban-like Eisenhower 1950s houses side by side. It’s a bit mysterious, a bit desolate.

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