Playwright in NY

The local big paper review of my directorial debut, the Blueberry Pond production of With and Without (a play I developed from improvisations about ten years ago) has just come out and it's quite good.  Read for yourself -- A weekend in the country

The only thing -- he says you're not going to like these characters.  Which means, probably, that he doesn't like these characters.  Now I'm glad he likes the play so much and recommends it, but, damn it, I do like these characters.  All of them.  They don't always behave well, but they mostly intend well and they do try to find honor in their situations.

This has happened a few times -- getting good reviews that I'm pleased to quote but (I think) misread the play.  I'm not going to say this is as annoying as getting bad reviews that misread the play (after all, bad reviews by definition always misread the play, yes?), but it is annoying.  These characters may be fictional, but, damn it, they're my people and I'm protective of them. 

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