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One thing Blessing does not want in “Down the Road” is to be mistaken for a writer who is capitalizing on the public’s appetite for gore. He has written three plays since that time: “Two Rooms,” “Cobb” and “Down the Road.” He followed “A Walk in the Woods” to Washington for a special performance for members of Congress and Cabinet officials, as well as London and Moscow for its openings there (it also is scheduled for productions in Lithuania, Israel, Germany, France and Japan as well as being readied for a national tour with Anthony Quinn). Since “A Walk in the Woods” became his first play to make it to Broadway in February, 1988, productions of his work have multiplied. Since graduating from the famed University of Iowa graduate writers’ workshop in 1979, Blessing, who still lives in his native Minneapolis, used to write one play a year. He knows, he says, that this play is not “a make or break thing.” If Blessing himself seems curiously relaxed just three days before opening night of a play he is still rewriting, that’s probably because of the way success has changed the 39-year-old playwright’s life in the last year and a half. On Thursday, the third preview night of “Down the Road,” a mail carrier named John Merlin Taylor in Escondido shot and killed two other postal carriers, a woman believed to be his wife, and wounded a clerk. All have been produced by the La Jolla Playhouse.
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#THE HOSTAGE PLAYWRIGHT CROSSWORD SERIES#
“Down the Road” is the latest in a series of life-threatening subjects for Blessing that began with “A Walk in the Woods,” a story about arms negotiators who cannot dissuade their governments from stockpiling enough arms to blow up the world, and “Two Rooms,” a tale of an American hostage kidnaped and killed by unnamed terrorists in an unnamed land.
#THE HOSTAGE PLAYWRIGHT CROSSWORD SERIAL#
The real story is about how Americans mythologize murderers and how that may contribute to the startling statistics that show the number of serial murderers increasing 100-fold in the last 30 years. The play is not about the serial killer as much as it is about the people who are interviewing him for a book, Blessing said. And the play as a whole is so nonviolent that he is sure it will be of no interest at all to people like his stepson, 15-year-old Andrew, who is a “ big fan of slice and dice movies.” “It’s just a prerecorded off-stage scream from a clip for a serial killer movie,” he explains with a shrug. Blessing wrote it for “Down the Road,” a play about a serial killer that will premiere Sunday at the La Jolla Playhouse.īut doesn’t the high-pitched shriek rattle him the least little bit? Lee Blessing doesn’t even blink as a piercing scream comes from the Warren Theatre just a few feet away from where he is sitting, gazing happily at a cloud.