I gathered -- after 27 different people told me that they didn't know what it meant -- that it wasn't a good title," says [Douglas Bowie], whose writing career was launched after winning a CBC-TV contest. "It was too obscure and clever.
"I've had my ups and downs with critics over the years, for sure, but he's the hero of the piece, so it's a hugely sympathetic treatment of someone you'd think I'd be disposed not to be sympathetic to."
"It's rewarding, a little less financially rewarding than TV, but you always feel it's very much yours," says Bowie, who is married and has a daughter. "The stage is very much (more) a writer's medium than in TV, where sometimes your baby can be taken away from you."
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