I have never read or seen any of Hal Porter's plays. Even on Amazon they seem difficult to find. Were it not for his 1977 autobiography "The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony" that had accidentally come my way, I wouldn't even be familiar with the name....

This past year has been quite exciting: I ventured into the world of freelancing, continuing to teach and translate while setting more time aside for personal interests that previously had to be put on the backburner (those include learning another...