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Plays Of all the writing I've ever done, I love playwriting best for a number of reasons. It's small, it's intimate, and it's personal. It's you, the paper, your head, and no one else. You are writing for yourself, your vision, your passion, and you are the only one you have to please. If in the process you want to veer to the right, you veer to the right. If you want to make a sudden U-turn, that's okay too. Jump a curb if you want. It is totally your call, your ballgame. Ahh...freedom. It is not always easy getting produced and although I have been very lucky in that regard, I do have some plays that haven't had that opportunity yet. But when you do get produced, I promise you, you have never felt the highs that you will feel. It is hearing the lines you sweated over brought to life by gifted actors. It's having a director who understands exactly what you want to say and has the same goal. It's the loud applause the audience gives you at the end of the evening to further assure you how right you were in your choices. Of course, you have never felt such lows as you will feel when that doesn't happen. Then it is very important that you be kept away from sharp objects. But most of all, for me, I love the camaraderie shared with the cast and crew, the feeling that we're all in this together and that somehow we're going to make the play work. The words are what they bought and unlike any other media, there is a total respect for them, total dedication to them. Call it pride of ownership but it makes a difference. Flemming (An American Thriller) (Better Than The Original) Murder At The Howard Johnson's |