" 'So this is heaven!' A line that strikes dread into
a theater reviewer's heart."
— Dan Sullivan in the Los Angeles Times
“The most terrifying verse I know:
merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream.”
—Joan Didion, The Last Thing He Wanted
"Audiences never had any difficulty with his work,
which was instantly recognisable as the stuff of dreams…."
— Apology for the life of a British playwright
who died on July 3, 2013.
"I saw 'More Light' twice, for my sins, and wasn't surprised
that half of the second audience left at intermission."
— Dan Sullivan in the Los Angeles Times (continued)
Some light from this journal on the day of the above
playwright's death, the day before, and the day after—
For a more plausible heaven, see the posts of July first
and an LA Times obituary for a man who died on that date.