It is for me, at any rate. In past entries for the MWA-NY blog I’ve written about the mystery play. I’d like to return briefly to the subject — briefly, for the best of reasons: I’ve got a play to finish. Might As Well Be Dead, my second adaptation of one of Rex Stout’s tales featuring the heavyweight detective Nero […]
Crime and the theater have always had a mutually beneficial relationship. As an extremity of human behavior, crime is dramatic. We see this in plays that we might not immediately think of as mysteries. Oedipus Rex, of course, and Medea, which could be viewed as an ancient Cornell Woolrich revenge story—The Bride Wore Poison. O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra is, among other
