←Recommendations of A First-Draft Second-Rate Love Story

Funny! The draft confusion works oh so well. Exiting before the end of the page is a sweet, perfect ending.

JOHN BUSSER has a sense of humor that I truly love. “A First-Draft Second-Rate Love Story” had me laughing out loud throughout the play. As an actor, I could feel the frustration of ever changing dialogue, different scripts being used by the actors in a rehearsal, and a playwright who is constantly changing his mind. Audiences will love this play. I definitely loved it!

Gleefully tossing lethally hilarious bombs at the convoluted pretensions of a playwright (perhaps ALL playwrights?), Busser's spoof causes one to explode with laughter on nearly every line and/or situation. With typical Busserian zaniness, this first-draft, second rate love story scores on all points. What a joy it would be to see staged.

It's a play-within-a-play! It's a screwball comedy! It's a farce! It's all these things, but most of all, it is flippin' hysterical. As actors cold read from the wrong drafts of a play in development, this quick little piece avalanches into the funny. I would love to see this performed onstage! What a treat!

Ah the many pitfalls of new script development! These are plumbed to hilarious effect in this effervescent comedy by John Busser. There's certainly some inside baseball being played, but the humor in this work would also be accessible to a general audience. And this play deserves to be seen by many audiences!

Clever funny play and all too-true. Actors working off of different drafts -- sure happened to me. More than once. :)

Since I've already watched all the precious episodes of "Slings and Arrows" twice through, this hilarious comedy from Busser is a good fix. I love inside-track winking theatre escapism, the knowing commiseration that is really not about the genre or art form, but about people, and the way they will universally trip themselves up, or knowingly or inadvertently, sabotage the team. Busser's nutty play would be a perfect kick-off for a short play festival, and for this theatre-starved weirdo, this is balm for the soul.

Cleverly witty play about actors in a staged reading all having different drafts. Theatre professionals especially will find it all too real!

A clever send-up on what will be all too familiar to playwrights and actors, that is the foibles of putting a play together with prima donna actors and a script that keeps changing without the cast being all up to speed on it.

Such a fun, quick, witty piece that covers the woes and wonders of script development. LOVE STORY felt like reading a play of inside jokes for theatre people, which I absolutely loved. It would be such a great addition to short play festivals, especially to open the night.