My, How Things Have Changed!

It truly opens up the rules and the possibilities for writers.

A couple of years ago, a reader wrote asking about nudity on the stage. I answered that personally, I would use it if it was key to the show, and not just for the sensationalism of nudity. Robert Anderson, in 1967, made a point about nudity on stage with his one-act, The Shock of Recognition, from the show, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.

Neil Simon has a simple formula: take two characters of opposite temperaments, put them together in an intolerable situation, and let the sparks fly!

Here's the seque:

This past weekend, while in Houston, I went to Theatre Suburbia's production of All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go by Catherine Filloux. It takes place in a rundown HoJo's in Buffalo, New York, during a blizzard. A convention of cross-dressers is taking place, and an Amish group, caught in the blizzard, must share rooms with them. As it turns out, there are a pair of brothers, one from each group.

It's a good time to be a writer!