The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is known for the occasional world premiere of a new play.
But this time a smaller community theater is the one trotting out a new work.
Camelot Theatre in Talent is the first company to put on a fully-staged version of Richard Manley's
The play has been heard in the Rogue Valley before... it was one of the plays in the 2013 Ashland New Plays Festival, as a staged reading.
Richard Manley joins us to talk about the work--about a tortured poet and a budding romance--and the inspiration for it.