A friend of mine and I started telling a story about eight years ago and have only just picked it up again. We call it the Theater Plot, because the story revolves around the putting on of a play, and the putting on is important. It's also backstage story, because what happens off stage affects what happens on it. It's about how things are usually more complicated than you think they are. It's a queer romance, which was not something that we had intended to be there when we started; it just sort of happened. It's about choosing, and I think, though I hadn't really thought about it in those terms, it's about permission.

My friend and I both did things with theater in college, but not really since then, so I'd love to be able to ask you all sorts of questions about whether theater in the real world can actually work the way we want it to, and how we'll need to change things when it doesn't. There are probably questions that I don't know I should be asking. Do you know any resources we might look at?