Goodreads asked Janice MacDonald:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Janice MacDonald If you study Greek theatre, you find out that all the goriest action happens off stage…Oedipus blinds himself elsewhere and then appears, Medea takes the kids off behind closed doors and blood trickles under the door on to the stage…and that is because if it happened onstage, it really had to happen. That has always tickled at the back of my mind. What if by pretending to die night after night, you really did bring it upon yourself? Just the cheapening of life along with the fuzzing of reality? That's why the latest book is set among the various elements of summer theatre throughout the city.

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