The Theatre: Shaggy Genius

Amateur Playwrights Get Every Consideration

Shaggy Genius from those unhappy far-off things called country towns is vastly cynical. Shaggy Genius has usually written a play. After interminable weeks, the play has come back, eternally damned with the faint praise of the rejection slip. Therefore Shaggy Genius believes that managers do not read plays. Those that they read, he believes, they steal. No one but the established playwrights have a chance. Shaggy Genius stops writing plays and returns to the banalities of the barnyard.

In point of fact the yearning yokel has run the engine of his one-track...

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