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| THE PLEDGE | winner 13th Annual Julie Harris Award, Ventana Play Award, finalist Pittsburgh New Play Competition |
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Dreams in decaying Detroit take wing when a strange man -- madman, inventor, or thief? -- convinces an elderly Russian pawnbroker to accept as Pledge a mysterious black box he promises will move the world. |
| CONFIRMATION | Premiered Chance Theater 2001 (2nd Prize South Carolina National Playwright Award, finalist Pittsburgh International Play Contest) |
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Pro-choice opponents of a new President's high-court nominee pressure a fragile intern to air a shocking discovery, embroiling the nominee and his former lover -- a fiery, feminist author -- in an uncivil warfare that pits the right to privacy against the consequences of its betrayal. |
| CROSSING | THE LINE | (chosen Albany Civic and El Camino Real Playwrights' Festivals) |
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An unhappy woman --
separated by taboo from her psychiatrist -- pierces the doctor's professional armor and
falls in love with a hidden self she discovers in his out-of-print book of poetry
dedicated ... "To Phaedra." |
| Wish You Were Here ! | Premiered Chance Theater 1999 |
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Christmas in the Information Age. Exit aging baby-boomer Abel Joiner -- a disposable, blue-collar man-of-hands -- the last 'human resource' in a downsized Bulloni sausage factory. Snatching at a brass-ring promotion, Abel is thwarted by a Bulloni psychiatrist who knows that Industrial Age dinosaurs like Abel could spoil Bulloni's fractured plans for the future. When Christmas ends with yet another pink slip, Abel risks all on a daybreak idea -- a loony, happiness-sharing scheme that lands him in a mental hospital on New Year's Eve. |
| True Believer | (selected for the Chance Theater Evolving Stage Series) |
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Man, woman, birth, death, infinity -- and
bracketing the procession, a weary bartender who has seen the insubstantial pageant fade. Award-winning playwright Joseph Hullett weaves seven short tales -- including the Heideman and West Coast Playwright Contest finalists -- into a memorable evening of quick-fire comedy and drama. |
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Having lost all, a good doctor lies dying in a Laguna Beach hospice while three visitors -- absolving God of blame -- insist that Man brings misery on himself. Knitting a modern moral context for the ancient problem of evil, DESIGN reweaves the Biblical story of Job with a startling twist when the Doctor confronts God to prove that God's actions can rightfully be judged in human terms! |
| And All Ye Need | Premieres June 21 Manahattan's Theatre-Studio (finalist Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwrighting Excellence and 24th Annual Dubuque One-Act Playwriting Contest) |
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Human nature is the catalyst for this Romance in a Single Act wherein the National Academy of Life Science teaches a new and decidedly junior researcher and his green undergraduate assistant all they need to know when they discover in an abandoned desk three seemingly magical Federal Requisition Forms. |
| Trail of Tears | Premieres Chance Theater 2002 (not yet published) |
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Past and future entwine as a renowned Professor probes the history of an 1838 Cherokee farm-woman forced onto a long, winter death-march where 5000 perished. Obsessed with her story, he ignores political currents swirling around him. Rising too late to aid his assailed mentor, he finds himself betrayed -- compelled to chose between honor and family. |
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