I’m Ellen Swain. I’ve made my living off crime for years. Once I stopped dating juvenile delinquents, I started representing them in court. I’ve worked as a lifeguard, a law professor, a playwright, a newspaper reporter and a judicial law clerk. I’m revising my first crime novel and writing a book to help students with learning differences navigate law school. I am equally interested in saints, sages and sociopaths. Beauty and darkness.

Plays I’ve Written

11. Apr, 2011

I once heard the playwright John Guere say something to the effect that a play is never finished, it’s just abandoned.  I’ve abandoned full-length plays: a dark comedy about a woman addicted to plastic surgery and without the means to pay for it, and one about couples engaged in a therapeutic weekend in a remote cabin with one bathroom.   I’ve abandoned short plays on the Buddha quitting his job and joining a pillow fight, a yoga teacher impersonating an anger management counselor and then finding the building frozen in time, and a triangulated relationship.  Maybe I’ll pick them back off the shelf one day.  It does feel a bit like I forgot to pick the children up from the daycare center a year ago.
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2 Responses to “Plays I’ve Written”

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