Maxamoo Interview: Lila Rose Kaplan

Posted on June 19, 2013

In our Maxamoo Interview with playwright Lila Rose Kaplan, we discuss her play Bureau of Missing Persons now showing at 4th Street Theater and she shares a few of the experiences that led her to playwriting.

Maxamoo attended Bureau of Missing Persons over the weekend. It is a delicate, whimsical story dotted with tragedy and humor. It tackles the sensitive subject of missing persons with grace and well-timed, tension-relieving, wit. 

The story follows Angela, a perky but distraught grade school teacher, on a journey with fellow teacher Simon, who is suffering a similar loss. Inventive staging and props cast a beautiful tableau and aid the imagination in following these characters to a faraway location. 

The play is 90 minutes with no intermission.