Now, I know it's 9/12 and therefore I'm a day late...but I'd like to put this out there. Who out there, reading this, contributed to a piece of artwork or wrote a play or acted in a play or what-have-you that was directly or loosely related to 9/11/2001? I'm curious how commonplace it has become.
The Death of King Arthur was produced in late September, Early October of 2001...and the NY Times Review had a loose reference to the event in it's closing paragraph. Then, last year, when "The Americans" was produced, I was told by anyone within earshot that it was my 9/11 play...including Martin Denton, my closest friends, and the producers.
This was, as a matter of fact, news to me. I hadn't intended it at all. After watching it and seeing the images of the play, though, it's hard to disagree. I thought I was writing a play about the power of artwork. Or expression.
And isn't 9/11, on some level, about the power of expression. Even if that expression is of desperation, fear and hopelessness?
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