Good for Otto
Written by David Rabe
Directed by Scott Elliot
The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre
March 21, 2018
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💉 out of 5.

As a MFA Playwright from Penn State – and now a high school teacher of playwriting, I always run into the same problem with beginning writers. When given the choice to write about what they want to write  about, young students seem to gravitate to setting their play in the psychiatrist’s office.  The reason is clear – rather then writing a story with some conflict – rather than SHOWING us the story – they would rather put a wild, kooky outragious character on a psychiatrist couch and just drill them with questions to get a monologue out of them.  It is cheap easy playwriting.  You don’t have to SHOW us you can just TELL us – and that is not what our art form is about. Continue reading Good for Otto →