Hi, I'm Michael Dougherty, and I'm Will Mobley, and we are the writers of Dogberry and Burgess Are Scared.

Dogberry and Virgins Are Scared is like Shakespearean dumb and dumber.

It is much ado about nothing from the clown's perspective.

It's really funny.

It's really tightly written.

And it has a lot of heart.

It examines some themes of friendship and forgiveness, as well as themes of dick jokes and fart jokes.

And I thank you

very clear motivation for Don John as to the

why.

Yeah, as I was going to say, Don John is also... a character that just sort of says, I am a villain because I like to be.

And we wanted to uncover more of that.

And I think You know, it's partially a tribute to the excellent actors that we have seen in our careers play those roles and bring that humanity to them.

And feeling like we kind of want to give these two characters a little bit more of a reason to do what they do and be who they are as a way to, you know, honor these great performances that we've seen and as a way to make our play feel like a play with a capital P.

Now, I will say we bury the lead and we don't reach those moments until about three quarters of the way through the script.

Will?