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English
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A Playwright with a Passion for Unvarnished Depictions: An Interview with Tom Rogers
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2008
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41
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no.1
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67-90
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One day when my BYU Greek class was awaiting the arrival of our teacher, Tom
Rogers popped his head in the doorway and talked to us for ten or fifteen minutes or
so. (One of my fellow students must have been a friend of his.) At that point he was
well known for his plays Huebener and Fire in the Bones, which dealt with two
conflicted tragic heroes in Mormon history, Helmuth Huebener and John D. Lee.
Someone asked him why he wrote about such problematic figures. His answer, as I
remember it, was, “Those kinds of situations are just so interesting!”