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Bloomington, Indiana

2003

Wolf & Turtle Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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This is a present day play about a family, the Flannigans, its secrets and pain. The setting is the kitchen and living room of a Wisconsin farmhouse. The play takes place on Christmas Eve.Twenty years after killing his father and disappearing, the second son, Mick, returns under the guise of George Smith, an unusual stranger with a walking stick and mysterious air. Mick's brother, Pat and sister, Angela, recognize him, but pretend not to so as to protect their mother and younger sister, Sharon. The mother speaks and sees her dead husband and another daughter, Molly, whose suicide is at the heart of the murder twenty years earlier. Mick's gentle manor and quiet wisdom charm his mother and sister, but they still do not recognize him. Mick wants to turn himself into the police, to heal the wounds of their past. But Pat and Angela strongly resist as it would disrupt the fragile harmony they have maintained for these twenty years and reveal the secrets they have kept from their mother, Sharon and the community. The play ends tragically and now the mother sees another dead loved one.

New York City

2004

Love Creek; Bloomington Area Arts Council

The cast consists of 4 males and 3 females. Four of the actors have dual parts. These actors play a person in the writer's real life and a character in her play.,

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Julie D. is a contemporary drama in two acts. It is a play about a female writer, 42 years old, writing a play. The writer is an alcoholic who, after being sober fifteen years, starts drinking again. The central theme of the play is alcoholism and the creative process.The play within a play is acted out on one side of the stage with minimal props. The writer's real life provides characters and material for the play within the play. It is a creative reflection of her life.

Bloomington, Indiana

2001

Wolf & Turtle Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Absurdist Drama

Absurd

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Not Beckett is a two act, five character play. Approximate running time is 90 minutes. The set is simple: A sign post with arrows pointing in all directions. Props are minimal: A suitcase, a lawn chair, a broom. Custom changes are few. There are no unusual visual or audio effects. Lights are up/down. The inspiration for Not Beckett is Beckett's Waiting for Godot. It is a response, an answer?, to the Beckett, but does not require a prior knowledge of Godot. Not Beckett is intended to entertain, educate and edify as a stand alone work of contemporary drama. It is not for everyone. Few things are. The plays opens as Balthazar muses on the question: Why? Individual and universal. Jocko, comic relief to Balthazars verbose intellectualism, enters. Having determined that Jocko is in fact Jocko, the conversation moves on to the question: Where are we? And then: Which way are we to go? Not Beckett consult the sign post to no avail. Caesar talking on his cell phone enters the theater and sits in audience. Balthazar announces that he must think. Vega, tutu and leotards, enters dancing. Caesar stands in audience and criticizes the play. Pretentious minimalism and second rate acting. Vega reenters as a poet. The audience discovers that Jocko is not what he would seem. He is more and less. At which point Mary Joseph, possessing mystical wisdom, enters sweeping. Following her advice and despite Balthazars dire warnings, Jocko prays for guidance as to the direction they should proceed. The first act ends as Caesar climbs onto the stage and becomes part of the play. Act Two continues to discuss the questions raised in Act One with the difference that Jocko, not Balthazar, is the central protagonist. Vega and Mary Joseph enter and exit. Caesar enters dragging a table. He suggests a play about lawyers with Jocko, Balthazar and Vega as a mutual love interest. Mary Joseph enters the theatre and sits in the audience. Jocko exits with Caesar and Vega in search of fame and fortune. Balthazar, alone, confesses skepticism as he awaits spiritual awareness. Jocko reenters. Again it is established that Jocko is in fact Jocko. The question is again asked: Which way are we to go? The play ends as the decision is made.

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Children's Play with music

Youth Audience

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written by Mike Smith, Robin Hayes and Wilf Tudor

Four children discover a pair of odd-shaped dice that have magical properties.They find themselves transported to the strange Land of Lady Fortune, where the games of Snakes and Ladders, Space Invaders, Monopoly, Cluedo and Chess are played for real . . .

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Symphony in Three is a two-act, full length work. The three characters are Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Loosely based on the real lives of these three musicians, the play is set in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The location is a University town in the Mid-West. Robert is an unrecognized, unperformed composer. Clara is a writer. Johannes is a rock star. The play examines the relationships between these three very talented people within the context of the social and political change of the time. Symphony in Three is a play about love. The love each character has for the other two and for "their" child. And how love transforms them. It is a play about creativity and mental illness. About whom then we were and who we hoped to be.