Keep writing your letters folks, cause this is all the guy gave us…
“MARK LEIB REPLIES: I did indeed receive an e-mail from Jobsite Theater Artistic Director David Jenkins, asking that I not reveal the unspecified “secrets” in March of the Kitefliers. I immediately felt that in one case at least the request was unreasonable - that I couldn’t write a coherent review of the play if I didn’t address a particular theme. This theme, revealed in Act One and elaborated throughout Act Two, was, as I said in the review, the better half of a play that was “half-inspired, half-formulaic.” The real secrets of the play - the results of this revelation and the outcome of a romance - I didn’t give away. A play’s assumptions are essential to any critic’s argument; its conclusions are for the spectator alone. I do regret, though, that I didn’t warn the reader that I was revealing a first-act surprise.”