the tragic story of John Van Druten

"I think you have a great talent for love, and you try to squander it and waste it... because it's been trampled before. And if you continue like this, you'll destroy it. And... I think that that's a talent you can't hide."

So says a character in The Voice of the Turtle, a 1943 play by John Van Druten, which I am currently directing for the Jermyn Street Theater in London. This is a rare revival of one of theater's forgotten voices, but his name may sound familiar. That's because he wrote the 1951 play I Am A Camera - ...