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The Playwright Perspective

Do you think you might tackle some of the issues from the campaign ( racism , xenophobia , hatred , gay rights ) or other political topics in a future work ? I have always been a political playwright . Many of my plays veer into a political discussion ( my newest play “ Goalposts ” which shows how middle aged employees are pushed out of long held jobs due to younger , less expensive people on the

Joseph M . Paprzycki market ) and “ Last Rites ” which showed a city changing due to the closing of factories and shipyards . I have also written about racism , hatred and gay rights . However … in saying that … now is the time for artists to stand up even more to tell the truth about the darkness around them . I think it is even more important now that our national press failed on such a large level and let a dangerous , man child take over the country . We …

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