Wanted Man finally wanted
After a performance of my play, Wanted Man – wherein a woman comes up with a surprising way to meet somebody after she witnesses a bank robbery – the lead actress mentioned to me that she felt like the story was from another time, noting the absence of cell phones in the story. A perceptive comment – because Wanted Man is indeed a remnant of a previous era. It was adapted from an unsold screenplay that I wrote in the mid 1990s. The screenplay had one standout scene that drove most of the action that follows. I just had to figure out how to compress the whole two-hour story into that one scene. Despite this being more of an exercise in salvaging an old idea than a serious playwriting effort, it took me four drafts just to get everything set up right so it all pays off somewhat logically (for a romantic comedy, anyway). When I finished, before I set it aside and went on to other things, I decided I might as well enter it into at least one play fe...