Am I worried or excited? Scared or intrigued beyond words? I go on Chat GBT. I submit my short play and ask for critique. In an instant, an instant, it delivers a twelve page document full of extremely sharp comments, praise, questions, observations, recommendations. i.e. I think there's a genuinely interesting play here. It has philosophical ambition, an unusual premise, and a surprisingly moving emotional center. My overall reaction: The play is strongest when it stops discussing the nature of existence and starts dramatizing what it means to love being alive. That's the heart of it. I'll approach this as a dramaturg, looking at both the writing on the page and how it might work in performance. The play appears to be about a creator confronting his own creation and deciding to destroy it. Joe Wright is perhaps a writer, God, playwright, or some combination of all three. Pop and Suzie are characters who have become more than the circumstances that produced them. ...
