Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:38:59 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Plays
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>Hello Eric
>
>Don't know if we could swing it, or where to start, but what
>a great idea.
>
>On 12/31/03, Eric Jablow wrote:
>EJ> I remember reading that some college put on a Theater in the Round
>EJ> version of "The Big Time", by Fritz Leiber.  Does anyone have =
details?
>EJ> Would that be a good project for a CapClave?
>
>Be seeing you,
>
>Walter Miles
>

It's not surprising, considering Leiber's family history:

"As the child of two Shakespearean actors - Fritz Sr. (see below) and
Virginia (n=E9e Bronson) - he showed a great fascination with the stage,
from short stories featuring travelling Shakespearean companies such as
"No Great Magic" and "Four Ghosts in Hamlet", to the actor/producer
protagonist of the novel A Specter is Haunting Texas. An interesting
feature of The Big Time is that though it is about a war between two
factions changing and rechanging history throughout the Universe, all
the action takes place in a small bubble of isolated space-time, about the
size of a theatrical stage, with only a handful of characters. " <http://en=
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber>

He did some acting too.

I do recall from the 4th World Fantasy Con (1978) held in Ft Worth, when =
on stage and not having a working microphone, well . . .he didn't need it. =
 He really knew how to project his voice.

mjw