Where the future isn’t bright
In my circle, some people know James Smith as an actor who has appeared in several of my plays over the past 15 years, including “The Size of Pike,” “Happy Fun Family,” “Safehouse,” “Animals,” and probably a few more. My students this semester at USC know him as one of the actors who made a guest appearance in my Survey class last month to read their scenes. (Some people may know him as the bartender at the Black Cat Inn in Absecon, NJ, but that’s a different James Smith.)
I’m now thinking that more people are going to know him as the pitchman of a post-apocalyptic console game. (Which my son and I, coincidentally, are playing.)