08/23/2009: "R & B ... On Stage!"

Hi All,

Do you happen to live or are you presently vacationing in Sydney, Austrailia? Do you like plays? Are you in possession of ten Aussie dollars? Then you should check out Rust and Bone, the play:

http://www.parnassusden.org.au/2.html

The way this came about was: about a year ago, maybe less, I was contacted by a playwright, Caleb Lewis. He's an up-and-comer in the playwrighting world and he said he'd read the book and was interested in working up a play on it. He sent along some samples of his work, other plays he'd written, and I was blown away. His stuff was fantastic. So I checked to make sure that playwriting rights and screenplay rights were separate, and, discovering they were, Caleb and I worked out a deal: he was more than welcome to make a play based on the stories so long as he gave me his firstborn child in recompense. So, Caleb, I'm still waiting for that little bundle of joy! Unless you want to weave some gold out of that straw I sent you. Either way, my friend---gold or baby: nobody rides the ole Davidson Express for free!

That's not true. I would have given the rights to Caleb for free, probably. He knows his stuff.

All best, Craig.