Arthur Bicknell
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Arthur Bicknell is an American playwright
, who wrote the legendary flop Moose Murders
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According to an April 21, 2008 article in The New York Times, Bicknell " … was 32 at the time and had written a couple of scripts. … After the show closed immediately, Mr. Bicknell spent a long night drinking with friends and talking about life. … He tried to move on, writing another play and even a midnight drag show, but eventually gave up and worked for a few years as a literary agent
. Someone tried to get permission to turn the play into a musical called Moose Murders: The Afterbirth, but Mr. Bicknell said he was not ready for that. … Eventually he came to terms. 'If you can’t redeem, exploit,' he said in a telephone interview. 'You have to embrace it.' He's now writing a book about the experience."
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, who wrote the legendary flop Moose Murders
Moose Murders
Moose Murders is a play by Arthur Bicknell, self-described as a mystery farce.An immediate flop, it is now widely considered the standard of awfulness against which all Broadway failures are judged, and its name has become synonymous with those distinctively bad Broadway plays which open and close...
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According to an April 21, 2008 article in The New York Times, Bicknell " … was 32 at the time and had written a couple of scripts. … After the show closed immediately, Mr. Bicknell spent a long night drinking with friends and talking about life. … He tried to move on, writing another play and even a midnight drag show, but eventually gave up and worked for a few years as a literary agent
Literary agent
A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and major non-fiction writers...
. Someone tried to get permission to turn the play into a musical called Moose Murders: The Afterbirth, but Mr. Bicknell said he was not ready for that. … Eventually he came to terms. 'If you can’t redeem, exploit,' he said in a telephone interview. 'You have to embrace it.' He's now writing a book about the experience."