Not every script is trying to be perfect

Writing principles and their limitations

It doesn’t have to be like this. Photo by Ron Lach

Recently, I received a script note on a play which I’ve been working on, and it crystallized some thoughts I’d been having for a while.

In lockdown, I translated Christian Dietrich Grabbe’s 1822 German-language comedy ‘Scherz, Satire, Ironi…