{"id":3738,"date":"2020-10-12T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2021-01-13T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:03:48","slug":"ludwig-on-tenor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/press\/ludwig-on-tenor\/","title":{"rendered":"LUDWIG ON TENOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0Do the characters and situations in your plays\u2014as farcical as they may be at times\u2014have a basis in real life, specifically in your real life?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ken Ludwig:\u00a0<\/strong>Absolutely. But I didn\u2019t always know it when I was first writing the plays. Take<em>\u00a0Lend Me a Tenor<\/em>. When I first wrote it, I thought it was a kind of fantasy about the people I would like to live with. Then, as more and more friends saw it, they said, \u201cKen, it\u2019s you. Max is you. Don\u2019t you get it?\u201d If you don\u2019t know the play: it\u2019s about a young man who wants to be an opera star and believes he has certain talents inside him that no one else can see. In the course of the play he proves to the world that he does have the talent he believes in\u2014and he proves it to himself as well.<\/p>\n<p>When I wrote\u00a0<em>Lend Me a Tenor,<\/em>\u00a0I was a young playwright with no real successes behind me. In fact, I went to law school because I thought I needed something to fall back on. And so I spent time practicing law as sort of my day job, and at the same time I wanted to write for the theatre. I thought I had it in me. I had strong beliefs about art\u2014and especially about the theatre\u2014and I wanted to express them. I wanted to convey my belief in self-worth and a shared humanity. 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