A Playwright Departs this World

In so many ways, this is a blog for writers, too.  Here is a legend who has left us much to early:


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/theater/sam-shepard-dead.html


Writing plays, in particular, garners my respect.  It's a special writing all of its own, and dialog, to me, is the most difficult thing to conjure.  In a digital world, who will write plays?  Who will consider the moment, and adapt scripts, props, and scenery with just the right direction to create verisimilitude?


In musicals, the songs bolster the story, often carrying it.  I love the music, always, but not always sitting through the story which can be pointless.


Plays are different.  There is a magic to sitting and reading them, too,  and the infinite possibilities for interpretation, live, with the magic only the theater can give.


I understand Shakespeare is not being taught much any more.  That is a crime, for he teaches us to live in the moment, and all good actors act his plays, if only once.  He spawned all great playwrights, like Sam Shepard.  When another one is gone, who will take up the pen?

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