Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Yeah, well I did that because I resolved after the failure of The Man Who Had All the Luck
that I was never going to write another play. What I saw on the stage had no relation to
what I had imagined. I knew nothing about theatre or about acting or anything else of
that kind, so I thought, “Well I might as well just tell them what I’ve got in my
mind and have them read it." So I wrote Focus which was a story that was during wartime.
We had a lot of…a number of organizations in New York and probably other places that
were basically trying to sell Anti-Semitism. They were basically pro-fascist, pro-Hitler,
and this was a story of a man who looked very Jewish, but he wasn’t. It’s been republished
lately again and goes on.