Shel's Shorts

Lauded poet, songwriter and author of children's books, the incomparable Shel Silverstein also wrote dozens of short plays, which are deeply infused with the same wicked sense of humor that made Silverstein famous.DREAMERS. Nick and Ritchie are plumbers trying to unclog a drain, but Ritchie's worried about a dream he had where he slept with another man. Nick tries to calm his fears. "It's symbolic," he tells Ritchie, just like the dreams Nick had of sleeping with his own mother and daughter. (2 …