welcome to a taste of theatre where everyone is a star today stars shining bright on ursula battle of battle stage plays in baltimore maryland are you big there ursula going introduce yourself again yes tell us how did you come up with this story very interesting so it all evolved from a conversation that she and i had this funeral about i guess now about twelve thirteen years ago wow and tell us about some of the people in this production so within the story line you know back to your question you have some very interesting characters in the production you have a charismatic pastor reverend wright just first thing right  members and their personalities that really i guess come through in this particular production we have one choir member who of course can can sing but one of the things that she battling is an addiction to gambling so she's at church more i'm saying in sister but outside of that you know she has an issue with gambling then there's another  member who has an addiction with eating so you know there's these very is addictions that the different choir members of dealing with but they can definitely show up on sunday and and bring it so there's so many different on you know characters in this play i can't even begin to even speak to all of them but all of very distinct you have you know very funny characters in the play you know you have very serious characters in church every sunday then you have the churches and one of the churches musicians do have the dads who can play the organ however she challenges a little bit when it comes to seeing  into these deep moments where he begins to recite lines from the color purple he's a he's that would you call a color purple eric so to speak he just you know once he saw the movie the color purple it just had this lasting impact on him so you never know when he's going to go into one of those color purple moments so to speak but there's just so many just wonderful characters in this play well how many cast members  in your production it's a it's a very large cast there's about thirty five wow asked members in this production and we're also featuring a birdie of well known singing trio mean just i don't think i've ever at one time been around so many talented people who could sing who could and it's just a blessing to be the playwright of this particular production and see it come to life e did teachers lounge and it was just say without callie a wonderful partnership his directing ability and i think my writing ability has combined to be a dynamic tool so to speak branch so why is this story important and i think that it's an important piece because in a day in town with so many people struggling with so many things you know whether it's money issues relationship issues whatever the case may be that this is a place that gives hope and one of the thing that i want to mention too is it you know this play also deals with church her it deals with  unforgiveness and i think that it also serves as a powerful piece to those who have gone through a situation where they may have been hurt by church and some way where they may have been hurt by individual and they're stuck in a you know in a state of unforgiveness that once you move past their unforgiveness you can begin to heal and and i think that this place really you know speaks to what can play touches on a lot of things i think in a minister to a whole lot of people because sometimes you know we never know what a person is going through but i think that there's something for everybody in this piece and like i said i'm on it and  wonderful individuals that think it come together that's going to put on a production i think i claim and i think it is going to go national because the play is just a good it has everything in it that makes it to be  t it needs to be to i mean maybe in baltimore right now but i'm looking for this to go national is just a good wound there are going to be several people watching this own across the playwright well for one i would probably say if you have an idea in terms of a plane a book or whatever it is that you want to write to just do it there are going to be all kinds of obstacles and things that come your way to deter you from writing but even know sort of have a plan in place in terms of you know when would you like to try to do it and you know maybe look at the news and to also not be afraid to take criticism you know i think that one of the things that i have to realize is that you know i'll say on the greatest writer but i will say that my writing has i think improved greatly because i'm willing to listen you know i left people read my work  let the director direct and i let the stage manager do stage management the performers perform so i think oftentimes women are you know individuals write plays you know it may try to take one too much but there are i think the there are people out there that can take your piece and make it a masterpiece if you will allow them to work in their gifts whether it's directing whether it's singing whether it's stage management whether it's publicity i think that we all have our unique gifts and then we all come together and we're going to put a project which in this case the state playing it's a wonderful thing e s t a g e plays dot com and my e mail address is babble stage plays and g mail dot com oh so i want to repeat your website in your email address one more time because i know somebody  all in the choir this serves as a wonderful vehicle to you know touch on drug addiction but more importantly let people see through this piece that you can overcome i also believe that laughter is a good thing so you know whether the viewers out there are going through a financial situation or whatever challenges they may be going through in their life i believe that this is two hours and fifteen minutes of their life that they can just get away and just laugh like i said they're going to cry but i think they're going to be just so overjoyed at the comedy that's in this place so it's a little bit of everything i guess if it is a very riveting story line but outside of the riveting story line you know there's drama you know there's comedy there's suspense there's so many different things but it's talking about this play for a very long time so we're going to watch a clip of your play and as always we appreciate you coming on a taste of theater where everyone is a star and as we always s