Neon! Long time no see!

I was forced to write this in one night, so I'd be lying if I said I was as pleased with this as I was with the first, which I spent bits and pieces of a two-month period writing and revising. It was a class project, and having it bumped up two weeks didn't exactly leave me with much time to plan. If I find the time, I'm going to go back and rework this. I feel that once it's expanded, it will feel less forced and more like the first.

The humor is on the same level as "Scientific Method," but while the first playlet has a frenetic bent that carries it along, this one, I'm sorry to say, mostly just sits there. Ordinarily, the characters in a farce can and should be one- or two-dimensional, but when they do nothing but stand around and talk, it takes more than that to make things interesting. Also, many of the gags just seem forced (Hotel Magnates . . . In . . . SPA-A-ACE!), and if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say you had a better idea but decided to stick with this one because it seemed safer, easier, or you just felt compelled to finish it. Maybe I'm wrong. In any case, I recommend giving the characters a little more thought and revising accordingly—vague advice, but I hope it helps.