Article: `Bluesman': Crime Watch

PLAYWRIGHT Bruce Clarke works as an attorney with the public defenders' office, which goes some way toward explaining the gritty authenticity of his play "Bluesman," which is a world premie`re at Source Theatre.

"I talked to Bruce after work last night," says Source artistic director Pat Sheehy. "And he had just found out who the real murderer was in some case he was working on. And I said, `Coming to the theater must be an anticlimax for you after what you do all day.' "

"No, really, I find the theater far more exciting," Clarke says. "I used to be an actor - I hate to say `used to be.' And I guess that's why I started writing, because I wasn't getting enough acting work to make a ...

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