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

  • Mark V Jones: A First-Draft Second-Rate Love Story by John Busser
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    Imagine Saturday Night Live doing a campy parody of Saturday Night Live. This was a fun piece that makes lite of itself. The absurdity of it all is / was that it’s all so true and very real. One of those works where you say, “Damn! I wish I had done that first.”

    Imagine Saturday Night Live doing a campy parody of Saturday Night Live. This was a fun piece that makes lite of itself. The absurdity of it all is / was that it’s all so true and very real. One of those works where you say, “Damn! I wish I had done that first.”

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  • David Hansen: A First-Draft Second-Rate Love Story by John Busser
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    Saw this in performance at Cleveland Public Theatre, and it is simply hilarious. Busser tweaks the collective nose of his fellow playwrights with this witty, crafty account of staging a new work and how we bravely push through it, no matter what. (In the spirit of full disclosure I have myself held a reading of a new work and provided the wrong draft ... twice.)

    Saw this in performance at Cleveland Public Theatre, and it is simply hilarious. Busser tweaks the collective nose of his fellow playwrights with this witty, crafty account of staging a new work and how we bravely push through it, no matter what. (In the spirit of full disclosure I have myself held a reading of a new work and provided the wrong draft ... twice.)

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