Hey,    

     I recently attended my first Fringe play.  Wouldn't have gone to see it except the leading man from my last play was in it.  The play was an interesting one.  The two leads performacnes (not my friend, thankfullly)  were lack-lustre and carried no depth.  There wasn't any layers to the characters at all. It was just actors saying lines.  It would have been an entirely different play had the leads been cast differently.

Anyway, I've been thinking of writing a fringe play.  You know, going way outside of my usual genre and comfort zone.

    Well as it happens, and I know this sounds crazy, a play came to me in a dream last night.  The entire thing basically I dreamed like it was actually on stage.  And boy oh boy, is it way, way outside of my confort zone. 

   It's so different from what I write that it will shock people I know. It's somewhat graphic in parts. I have no idea where this play came from becasue its topic is not based on anything that happened to me. At least not that I'm consciously aware of.

     I'm sure it would be accpted at this fringe festvial.  I know I can cast it. Only two characters.  I'm thinking, if I go ahead with this, I might do it under a pen name so nobody willl know it's me. 

     This play could generate a lot of press and I'm not sure how that would reflect on my other works.  I have a certain fan base and I'm sure that 99% of them would not approve of this new play. I guess most of them wouldn't see it so if I use a pen name they would never know.  But it just might reflect back on me, you know?

addenda to the above post....


My lovely, talented and brilliant wife informs me that in French "sous" (pronounced "sue") means "under"

therefore, the psuedonym Sue Denim is not only a homonym but also a play on words in two languages since underpants are often found "under denim".

You gotta love that name!   (and my wife)

Yes, Topper, I meant to mention Jane Martin since the others I named are authors and Martin has written a number of plays.  It is a well-known fact "Jane Martin" is a pen name, but only a few people associated with the Actors Theatre of Louisville actually know who he/ she is.  And they're not talking.  The oft-repeated rumor (I learned from a director who worked there) is that Jane Martin is two people (ala Ellery Queen). 

Tristan...that's wonderful.  I hadn't heard the numerous author theory, but it makes sense when you concider the multiple monologues she's(?) produced.  I've directed Talking With once and would do it again in a heart beat. 

Maybe we could get Don Foster on the case.  He is a forensic literary expert who unmasked Joe Klein as the author of "Primary Colors".  Foster claims that, like fingerprints and DNA, we each have one thing that distinguishes us from everyone else.  Although we may disguise our handwritting or type rather than write or print, we have only one vocabulary and given a large enough body of work with which to compare, he may be able to discern who an anonymus author might be.  Check out Foster's "Author Unknown"  I found it fascinating.

Originally posted by Topper Favorite pen names: William Shakespeare (Edward De Vere) (Okay, so maybe that last one has never been proven, but I just thought I'd toss it in to the mix.)

 Actually your probably not that far wrong  Topper!
As there is a strong belief that the works are attributed to Marlowe, Greene & others. Except Old Bill got a scribe to stick his name on the works & never ventured more then a 100 miles or so out side of London or left England at all.