Advance notice that I have written a play, which will be performed by professional actors, doing readers' theatre--which is to say they hold scripts when they move about the stage. Their rules are: the play has to be one act and it should run about an hour. One more, rather whimsical rule during the current season: each play must have some reference to a horse in it. The space is Blackfish art gallery, 420 NW 9th. In the Pearl District. It's what you might call "off Broadway...by about three thousand miles." The premise is that two characters, one British, one American, both military surgeons, run into one another in a clearing in the woods of San Juan Island just before Christmas of 1860, during the Pig War. You'll be surprised to learn that it's intended to be somewhat amusing. It will run two nights only: December 9 and 10. David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html