Building a Good Relationship With Your School’s Parents, Principal, Faculty, and Staff

In fantasy and in real life, absent characters sometimes play important roles. Hamlet’s father, offstage except for his lone, ephemeral appearance as a ghost, plays a central part in that great Shakespearean drama. In a one-woman play about the poet Emily Dickinson, members of the audience sense that they are witnessing a drama involving many characters. Yet, all the other characters, some of them very central to the story, are offstage.