STEPHEN King has vices, but writer's block? The man wrote 2000 words a day for most of his career. I'm not saying he's nerveless: King threw the manuscript of Carrie in the trash before his wife fished it out and urged him to finish it. But no genre writer is as prolific and popular. To the extent that Lee Gambin's King of Bangor is intended to serve as a dramatic illustration of writer's block, it's barking up the wrong tree.Since I haven't seen the play, I'll reserve comment.
Luckily, that's not all it does. The one-act play features a passable King lookalike (Peter Berzanskis) perched on a throne at a typewriter. He's stuck. Characters from his fiction crowd him as he downs Scotch at an alarming rate, snorts lines and gobbles pills.
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/king-of-bangor-20110703-1gx82.html
I suspect King has faced writers block, but dealt with it and moved on.
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