What The Hell With The Hat?: My Playwriting Diary 1970-2024

By Ed Ballou

A meandering account of my attempt at playwriting over the past half century, my successes (few), my failures (many), my continuing to write despite the apparent lack of support from the rest of humanity - oh, and many excerpts from my soon-to-be famous plays…

“Upon reading ‘Three Sisters’, I realized my characters sling lines of words at each other, while Chekov’s characters envelop each other with magnetic clouds of dialogue which bind them together," writes Ballou in What The Hell With The Hat?: My Playwriting Diary 1970-2024

In reflecting on the book he adds "the book is not just about the act of writing, or my play excerpts, but also about my observations of plays and dramatists I have read…"

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