Author’s Note

So this is my fourth play. It’s short, so I’ll write a short author’s note.
This play is about death. That’s all. I don’t like to be morbid, but sometimes I guess I just am. This play is about what happens after you die.

On a lighter note, does anyone want a playwright for anything? I am graduating this summer and I find myself in need of a job. I suppose there isn’t much I’m fit for, but I have skills. I can type. I can sweep floors; in fact I’ve become rather a dab hand with a broom and dustpan working at The State Theater the past couple years. I hate math, so if you’re looking for someone to do your taxes, look elsewhere. I love to paint. Plus I play a little guitar. I’d like a starting wage of about $25 an hour. Of course, that’s negotiable. Interested parties should contact me: ntwright@umich.edu.

OK. That was actually kind of a long author’s note, thanks to my shameless career plug. I’ll wrap it up. Thanks for coming. As we say at The State, enjoy your show.

Nathaniel Wright
02/15/03


Director’s Note

To the audience: This is the third of Nathaniel’s plays that I’ve directed.  All three have been startlingly different in content and approach, but they all have the same somewhat cockeyed worldview…and that, I think, is what makes them…how to put it?...fun.

And with Pushing Daisies we have Nathaniel’s metaphysical play…such as it is.  My only question: how is it that Nathaniel came to write such a Catholic play?

A word of advice: When burying a loved one (if you haven’t yet, you likely will someday), don’t let funeral directors bully you into buying the casket with the “guaranteed to last forty years” magnesium strip.

PEACE.

B. Hayes
02/15/03