to tout fellow dog ear member Mickey Birnbaum -  I escaped and had a Mickey Birnbaum theatre weekend this past weekend, seeing Bleedrail at the Boston Court and Big Death and Little Death at The Road (still open so run, don’t walk to go).   It’s always fascinating - and somehow heartening (if that’s a word) - to see the evolution of other playwrights plays.  Both are plays I’ve read many draft of  -  both have been signifigantly rewritten over time, into produciton.  I always feel like everyone else’s plays spring forth fully formed and mine are reshaped painstakingly out of lumps of clay.  Just to see how Mickey’s successfully changed, became more defined, makes me feel like, oh, we’re all in the same long drawn out process of discovery.  Thank God!