My first play.

I received an email from my friend Steven from last semester's drama class.

I need you to write me a three page play with no more than 4 characters, loosely themed around spring/rebirth/change, and I need it on my desk this week. It will be produced in less than a month. It can be comedy or tragedy of any genre.

I'm completely serious. Rock out the play, get it to me, and we'll have it produced ASAP, probably by the end of April.  Tell your friends, too. I'm getting as many submissions as possible. I guarantee yours a productions, though.

Ready, set, go.

And so, thinking along the lines of the myth of Persephone and the origins of spring, a couple poems I've written recently, and the touchy political climate, I wrote the following play.  I've never written a play before.  What the hell, I thought?  How often am I going to be approached to write a play that is guaranteed for production?

( A Rite of Spring or The End in One Short Act )

Whadda ya think?  For my Madisonian friends, I'll keep you updated as to when it will be produced exactly.  I got an email back from Steven this morning which read:

This is an excellent little play. I can't wait to stage it. If you come up with some more, shoot them my way, you are at the top of my roster, batting first.

Bravo.

So if any of you want to write a little play, send it this way and I'll get it to Steven.  I'm pretty excited.