Accidents in a Moral Universe.(playwright comments on redemptive power of art)
American Theatre, October, 2001 by Blessing, Lee
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Life's most crucial skill, a playwright suggests, is embracing one's self
These remarks were excerpted from a speech that Lee Blessing delivered in May to the 2001 graduating class at Oregon's Reed College.
Years ago a screenwriter friend of mine told me one of the secrets of his craft: to alternate rapidly success and failure in his central character's fortunes.
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It means a sequence might go something like this: Our hero's awakened by songbirds on a spring morning. He rises, only to find himself wincing in pain from a hangover. He stumbles to the bathroom and ...
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