Channel Surfing Premiere!

Today, at the Elisabeth Morrow School of Englewood, NJ, I witnessed the seventh grade drama class perform Channel Surfing in its world premiere.  Venues and onstage talent don't get more prestigious than that.  After witnessing last week's rehearsal and the horseplay before today's performance, I was rather surprised by what they pulled off: the entire play, with the correct words (more or less, sometimes too much more), before an audience of their peers, in the time we'd anticipated.  And there may have been some acting in there, too.  It certainly was an ... experience.  (Especially for Matt and Mandy who had to deal with the kids every week.)  But it's not everyday that you get to hear your work performed.  Nor do you get a reception quite like this:

It's Been Too Long

Well, for those of you who still care, here's my latest play:

Whole Love

Yeah, it's about a couple that falls in and out of love all while in line at a Whole Foods grocery store.  Sent it off to a short play festival, so we'll see.  Oh, and I received another rejection from a literary journal regarding the publication of my play, King of the Mountain.  It was a rather polite letter from the editor, though--and it now graces my wall of rejection with the others.  And now, I can only anticipate the production of Channel Surfing at the end of the month by those precocious middle school kids in Englewood.  But in the meantime, I'm going to try to write a play about the construction of Brooklyn Bridge, my new fascination.  I visited it last week, and now it's time to continue the research and, of course, the writing.