It’s challenging to write about the stage,
but harder still to write a decent play.
Playwrights will often rant and rave and rage,
playing with words that actors get to say.
They must be brave and honest (even sage)
to build a mirror world with just a pen;
they must erase their ego from the page
and fill it in with all their heart again.
Their goal: to speech the speak within the cage
of current favorite flavors apropos,
but still create a story for the age -
and one that challenges the status quo.
The audience should leave both less and more;
entertained but still thinking out the door.
About the Creator
Ward Norcutt
Playwright and poet.
My goal as a writer is to write thoughtful pieces of prose, poetry and stage plays. Hopefully, the end results are entertaining and engaging, with layers of meaning that make sense to the whole or a theme therein.
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Comments (3)
Well, your poem left me with less to be taken for granted in the making of a play and more of appreciation from behind the scenes of one.
Exceptional, and undoubtedly reflective of the wisdom and experience of a daring dramaturge!
Great sonnet! D.J. will appreciate it, I'm sure!