Plays

I’ve only ever written one short play. I’m not quite sure why, because I do enjoy writing dialog. Now that I’ve mastered an editor that makes it easy to format screen plays and stage plays, I might try my hand once more.

Meanwhile, enjoy this artifact from the time capsule.

The Laundrette - This is my one and only attempt (to date, at least) to write a short play. It's interesting to go back and read it now, but it feels a little bit like opening a time capsule. It was written in 1984, which was a very different time, with very different attitudes, particularly when it came to things like sexual orientation and gender identity. It was a very black and white world, back then. While there are many things that I'm nostalgic about, that isn't one of them. I realize now that some of my friends would do exactly what Simon does here, in switching personal pronouns to hide the fact that they had a same-sex partner.