wanted them to read the great playwright amir baraka, the red dutch-man, the great august wilson, miguel piniero, and others and it was clear when i got into the class that very few members of the class had much experience with theater and drama. so i suggested they write scenes as an exercise. what i didn't know is that one of the students in the class, kabi, r, in arabic, it means big and that's his nickname. knew who i was listening because of -- he had heard me on a station out of new york and he had gone around and recruited the most talented writers in the prison. so when i got those first scenes back. i had 20 students and i brought them back to princeton with that kind of musty smell all handwritten online paper that -- on # line paper that the note, the prison, i ran into several scenes that were just remarkable and lyrical, powerful, and this happened the next week and the week after that. and i said to my wife, on you eunice, who is a professional actor, graduate of juilliard. i showed her this and went back the class and proposed that we take these scenes and i would kind of serve as