Listen in as the director, assistant director and producer of a play called Winter discuss recent reviews and changes to the show.

Producer:  Have you seen the most recent reviews of Winter?  People hate it right now.

Director:  Hate it? People just don’t understand Winter.  I really don’t care what they think. 

Producer:  They say it is too cold and there is too much snow.


Director:  But it’s Winter. There’s supposed to be snow and cold. People just don’t understand.

Assistant Director:  I hate to interrupt this debate but we’ve got some problems over here on the set and we need the director to sort them out.

Director:  What now?

Assistant Director:  Well, for starters the snowdrops refuse to do their big bloom scene because they say they can’t work under six inches of snow.

Director:  Tell them to hang on, it’s going to get warmer in a few days and a lot of this snow should melt. When it does, we’ve got plans for a new scene for them.


Assistant Director:  I’ll try to convince them..

Director:  In the meantime, how about that Christmas Rose?  Do you think we can coax it into blooming?


Assistant Director:  Uh, boss.  The snow that is keeping the snowdrops from performing is crushing the Christmas Rose buds and they don’t think they can go on at all.

Director:  I’m sorry to hear that.  Let’s strike their scene and move on to the crocuses.


Producer:  Sorry. We didn’t sign the crocuses up for a play called Winter, so you’ll have to wait a few weeks for them.

Director:  If I wait too long, this is going to be a play called Spring!

Producer:  Actually, given the poor reviews of the play called Winter, I think we could make some money if we pushed up the release date of a play called Spring.  Think you can rush it a few weeks?

Director:  People around here wouldn’t recognize a good season if it was an icicle that dripped on their head.  I can’t make any promises. There are a lot of blooms and birds and bees who need to rehearse before we can open a play called Spring.

Producer:  Well, see what you can do.  I think people would really flock to a play called Spring if it means we’ve shut down the play called Winter.

Assistant Director:  In the meantime, boss, we’ve hired a pair of cardinals who think they can save the play called Winter.  Though, they are insisting that we replenish the black-oil sunflower seed in the feeders, or they will leave.


Director:  I guess the cardinals are our last hope. Okay, fill the bird feeders, quiet on the set.  Ready, set, action!


Cardinals flit across the stage of a play called Winter…