He met with actor Jeff Daniels and the artistic director, who said they wanted to produce his next five plays. It’s just transcendent."Īfter that experience, he wrote a play and sent it to the Purple Rose. "The collaborative nature of theater, the actors, the director, the writer, the designers - obviously at times its problematic, but it all comes together when you get to work with people that are really good at what they do and really passionate about what they do," he said. He wrote a one-act play and he sent it to a theater in the Livonia Redford area and they agreed to perform it and asked him to direct it in the late 1990s. "I like psychology because I like people and understanding people and it was fascinating," he said.Īfter graduating from MSU in the 1980s, he worked various jobs and later decided to attend graduate school at Wayne State University to obtain a master's degree in English. He has taught English at the college level for three decades.īecause of his love for words and dialogue, he decided to try writing screenplays. When he graduated, he went to Michigan State University and pursued a degree in psychology. Throughout high school he wrote different things. “I just always liked words and to me in that whole notion of how we talk to each other, how we communicate to each other that if I say the word table, to you, we both know what three-dimensional object in the real world that represents,” he said. When the suits returned, they came with a white cardboard backing, and the younger MacGregor decided those would be the covers of his books. His dad was an engineer, and he would send his suits to the cleaners. Passion for reading, writing and dialogueĪt the ripe age of 6, MacGregor decided he was going to write books. Watson and Irene Adler, who come face to face with two people from history: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. The new play is set in Holmes' 1905 London and, similar to MacGregor's earlier works, features Holmes, Dr. "Sherlock Holmes stories are so beloved and a winner with our audience." His plays are funny, thought-provoking and heartwarming," Purple Rose Managing Director Katie Hubbard said. David writes beautiful, complex, interesting characters as well as incredible storylines. "At this point, our patrons crave his plays just as much as our artists do. MacGregor wanted to explore the theme of Holmes in love, because he'd never seen the detective take on those emotions in earlier interpretations. "I've always loved the character Sherlock Holmes and I thought, 'It's not everybody's cup of tea, but I'm gonna write a Sherlock Holmes play," he said of starting the trilogy.
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The play is the third in MacGregor's Holmes trilogy, with plans for it to run until Aug. 27. MacGregor's ninth production at the Purple Rose theatre company, "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ghost Machine," recently had its premiere showing. HARTLAND - As famed sleuth Sherlock Holmes might say, Hartland playwright David MacGregor knows his methods.