about a playwright who is
also an actor in one of his plays
but as the playwright he would
step out of his role in the play
from time to time to address
the audience directly with
editorial comments about writing
this particular part of a scene
or to share what was happening
in his personal life at that time
sometimes describing excised sections
or filling in colorful gaps in the story
even becoming the director at times
giving instructions to the actors
so that as a result in the second act
we’re given a cleaner tighter more alive
completely revised version of the first act
without the playwright’s interruptions
except just at the end the playwright
appears to announce he can’t go on
and is abandoning the play altogether
then in the third and final act
the playwright appears alone
as an older man and tries
to explain to the audience
that the young man in act one was him
but because he killed himself
he couldn’t finish the play
now he is sending his angel
in the form of this old man
he could have become
to tell them he was sorry
though he knew no one
would ever believe him
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