Morality Play

Had an interesting email today. A teacher was directing a play and had cast the lead and he had later come to her very upset. It seems that he was finding the play very dark and couldn’t find the “morality” in the play and thus was having a hard time with it. The teacher asked [...]

The nicest rejection letter I ever got.

That’s what someone said to me today. I’m at a high school theatre conference in Texas and last teacher had given us some scripts to consider for publication. They were very clever, but a bit too similar to other plays we already have and we rejected them.
Today this teacher came by and told me how [...]

Laptop woes

My laptop is causing me grief. There’s nothing wrong with it…except the power supply. There’s something massively awry with the area where the power cord meets machine. I’m spending all my time trying to work voodoo magic to get that little power light to come on. As we speak the cord is wrapped around the [...]

Meet me in St. Louis

This past weekend I was at the Missouri State Thespian Conference in St. Louis Missouri. A nice conference where I met some great students. Had a particularly fun playwriting workshop - it’s fun to be in the same room with people who think the same way as you do about playwriting. So often I get [...]