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RE: RAT Famous Playwrights, Mostly Dead



Class Clown as Budding Artiste?  Wow!  Incisive. 
Groundbreaking.

At least Wilder never sunk to such cliche.

--- NOMADMONAD@aol.com wrote:
> The Great American Playwright of the next century is
> in a junior high class 
> right now.  
> 
> While GoodyTwoShoes is reciting the lines to Our
> Town out loud to the class, 
> the Great American Playwright has torn a quarter
> page from his text and put 
> it into his mouth.  Not to eat it, but to form it
> into a spitball.
> 
> The spitball is the first great play by the Great
> American Playwright.  
> 
> The Our Town text in hands of the Great American
> Playwright provides an 
> unfathomable supply of spitballs. The spitball is
> thrown at everyone except 
> GoodyTwoShoes and the Schoolmarm.  But soon the
> entire classroom has become 
> the audience of the spitball.
> 
> The Schoolmarm senses the disruption and interrupts
> GoodyTwoShoes recitation. 
>  "Class!  Pay attention!"   She glares threateningly
> at the Great American 
> Playwright.  She knows the cause of the disruption. 
> She also knows it's not 
> in her control.
> 
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