Previews for PLAYING THE ASSASSIN begin this Wednesday, October 21! In our last post, we connected with playwright David Robson to see what inspired him to write this emotionally charged production. Digging a little deeper, we asked Robson to answer a few more questions about the development of his play. Fight Director Christopher Plummer works with Garrett Lee Hendricks and Ezra Knight to create a realistic altercation during a rehearsal this past weekend. (Photo by DTC). Q:

Assassin began with an obituary. In the summer of 2010, I came across the death notice of former NFL safety Jack Tatum. The name alone evoked my youth and early football fanaticism. As a kid I’d been a Steelers fan and had a great fondness for my home team, the Eagles, too. Still, I knew Tatum, who’d played for the notorious Oakland Raiders, by reputation: In the 1970s, he was known as the league’s hardest hitter—a steam engine of a man—and a dirty player known to take cheap