Sanctuary

2007

Seventh Street Playhouse

Browns Court Publishing Company, Washington, DC

2007

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Play/Drama

11

4

2

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Synopsis: This two-act tragedy of faith and sin is totally based on the life of David, second king of Israel, and pivotal to the two Davidic religions, Christianity and Judaism. David, mighty King of Israel, rules the entire region after being crowned King of Israel in 1010 BCE. He has put together a kingdom against all odds. But this providentially endowed military and political genius, poet, spiritual, harpist, sportsman, and dancer is beset by tragedy. He has proven to be a less than satisfactory father and husband, and while called upon create a kingdom for God on earth, has incurred God's wrath. His is a life of faith and struggle reflected by conflicts with his God, political and military enemies, his children, family of origin, and the House of Saul. He must face the tragic consequences of his decisions but in the end is sustained by a remarkable faith, reflected in the enduring fifty psalms which he wrote three thousand years ago.

Seventh Street Playhouse

2007

Seventh Street Playhouse

Browns Court Publishing Company, Washington, DC

2007

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period comedy

Comedy

4

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: This two act play is about the rise, growth and fall of the Industrial Age in the United States. At the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh steel executives build the world's largest steel plant and a worker's paradise to house workers in Pennsylvania. Workers are essentially required to purchase lots in the new town at inflated prices. The town grows with the rise of the steel industry, and nearly five thousand workers, mostly immigrant, are employed. But the town must adjust to automation and the collapse of the steel industry in the twentieth century The play begins In the early 1890's, when a steel tycoon Tom McDowell, tries to produce a unique marriage between architecture and industrialism to build a workingman's paradise. But his goal is also to destroy strikers and keep compliant workers happy. He hires Nicholas Law Lathrap, the Nation's preeminent architect, to design the town of Jenner, named after his partner, Captain Jacob J. Jenner. Ida Tarbell, who will someday expose J. D. Rockefeller, is intrigued by the idea and visits the town. She and McDowell clash over his flawed idealism and her subconscious biases. She revisits the town many times over the next half a century, each time reexamining her own and McDowell's ideals as the Nation goes through wars, depressions, the New Deal, the Union movement, and the final collapse of the steel industry

Dorothy Strelsin Stage, New York City

2003

Seventh Street Playhouse

Browns Court Publishing Company, Washington, DC

2005

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Tragedy

5

2

3

Notes: -

Synopsis: This two-act drama examines forgiveness amidst three conversions. Rome's aloof and scholarly Chief Rabbi Zolli loses faith following the apparent slaughter of his Polish family during the Holocaust. He receives asylum in the Vatican, where he comes to appreciate Jesus as God suffering for humanity. The Rabbi re-finds faith and converts to Roman Catholicism. This is seen as a betrayal of his spiritual duty and a defection to the age-old enemy. Was his conversion one of conviction or merely gratitude? What does he demand at his baptism that eventually removes a major symbol of discrimination? Like Jonah, in choosing a Christian path to God, the Rabbi is faced with forgiving the slaughtering enemy. How will he meet the challenge? Then the next two conversions are as shocking as the first. He clashes with other characters as they too are forced to deal with forgiveness. Zolli's housekeeper will neither forgive nor forget the Nazi atrocities. A Nazi officer transports hundreds to Auschwitz and then seeks forgiveness through contrition and good works. A Cardinal attempts to assassinate Hitler, provides asylum to thousands, saves the Vatican, but should he have broken the diplomatic neutrality? A Catholic intellectual cleric has his faith severely tested by the death of his family. Does HE forgive God? The secular head of the Roman Jewish community, a former fascist, must make choices that will affect his community, but can he forgive a converted rabbi? The gutsy Calabrian Prioress valiantly hides refugees, but can she forgive her past?

Universalist Stage, Washington, DC

2005

Seventh Street Playhouse

Browns Court Publishing Company, Washington, DC

2005

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Dramedy

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4

3

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Notes: -

Synopsis: This two-act dramedy is about doubt and faith during the latter days of Solomon, long-time ruler of militarily and economically powerful Israel. The legendary monarch, who built the impressive Temple and holds together a diverse Nation by shrewd domestic and foreign marriages, has lost God's favor. He is the laughing stock of the nation because he supposedly can not even see the temple. When he approaches the Temple, all the lights go out. His treasonous chief minister is in hiding. Foreign countries wait to attack the borders, and the twelve tribes are fighting among themselves.

Peter Marshall Theater

2007

Seventh Street Playhouse

Browns Court Publishing Company, Washington, DC

2006

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Historic Drama

Play/Drama

4

2

3

Notes: -

Synopsis: Abraham Lincoln is the only American President who did not claim church membership. This two-act drama examines the complex relationship between the Nation's sixteenth President and his God during the Civil War. Lincoln's three -fold messianic intentions during his entire presidency are to remove the scar of slavery from the sacred Constitution, preserve the Union, and unite the Nation. "I am an accidental instrument of God's will." And the American people are "God's almost chosen people." And were the incredible oratorical skills of this self-educated man a sign of the Divine Will. The play traces his conflict with God through his defeats, triumphs, and tragedies as he heard God in the dialogue and actions of those closest to him. From his arrival in Washington dancing to the Mary Lincoln Polka to the Emancipation Proclamation and Second Inauguration, we follow the president as he clashes with other characters in the cast.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, DC, USA >>>

2007

Gamba Fraturra

Browns Court Publishing Company, Washington, DC

2003

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mystery romance

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3

1

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Margherita Sarfatti and Benito Mussolini, former lovers, meet after a three-year separation. Il Duce suddenly appears at her door as she attempts to leave the country. What does he want? What does she want? The play takes place during a three-day encounter in 1939. Margherita is trying to leave the country when a mysterious man wearing a mask arrives. He is her former lover, Benito Mussolini. They spar back and forth, and then we immediately learn that there is a love hate relationship, with more hate than love on Margherita's part. A number of bizarre incidents follow. She is well aware of what he wants--the 1300 letters he has sent her during their 25-year affair. He knows she wants out of the county. And he does play with her mind. Margherita Sarfatti, (protagonist) fifties, Benito Mussolini's first biographer, former mistress of 25 years, advisor, and speechwriter, She is one of the wealthiest women in Italy, patron of the arts, and was once called the uncrowned queen of Italy. She is Jewish, which is why Il Duce had to break the relationship when he allied Italy with Germany in 1936.

John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, DC, USA >>>

2006

Seventh Street Playhouse

Browns Court Publishing Company, Washington, DC

2006

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Historic Dramedy

Play/Drama

8

3

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Notes: Play can be performed with 4 males and 2 females.

Synopsis: In the early 1890's, steel tycoon George McMurtry, tries to produce a unique marriage between architecture and industrialism to build a workingman's paradise in southwestern Pennsylvania. But his goal is also to destroy strikers and keep compliant workers happy. He hires Frederick Law Olmsted, the Nation's preeminent architect, to design the town of Vandergrift, named after his partner, Captain Jacob J. Vandergrift. Ida Tarbell, who will someday expose J. D. Rockefeller, is intrigued by the idea and visits the town. She and McMurtry clash over his flawed idealism and her subconscious biases. She revisits the town many times over the next half a century, each time reexamining her own and McMurtry's ideals as the Nation goes through wars, depressions, the New Deal, the Union movement, and the final collapse of the steel industry