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Taffety Punk Theare Company as part of the Page to Stage Festival

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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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aka Mezzoviolino, 'Half A Violin'

During Patton's landing in Sicily in 1943, Alighieri, an excommunicated monk, returns to his monastery, to hear his commandant's confession.

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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

Drama 90 min

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Two brothers consumed by war's elixir over centuries, keep war's resolution eternally open

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Taffety Punk Theatre

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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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Bill Werder, a bombardier in the Gomorrah raids on Hamburg 1943, Audrey, his wife, Julia, their daughter, Dedee, a resistance fighter. BILL bails out over Germany, is rescued by Dedee of Allied Resistance. Bill returns home experiencing severe post-traumatic stress; his marriage falters, he has an affair with Dedee and dies; then Julia and Dedee live together into their sixties. Themes: How do aging children penetrate the personalities of their parents when living apart from the sites of their memories? Play explores AUDREY, JULIA and DEDEE and their differing relations to BILL over their lives. The women are forced to take care of others and respond to everybody else until they've lost themselves. After BILL dies they must rediscover themselves and what they want to be, but now time becomes an actor and is of the essence. We think we are stable unto ourselves and our own persons, but we're changed by everyone we meet and all the ways we meet them.

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Taffety Punk Theater

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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

Drama 90 min

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aka Killing Line, or Il Sultano

In Enemy Aliens, a San Francisco immigrant fishing family, confronts the war-time frenzy. After the Pearl Harbor attack 1941, Mario, their American born son, returns to SF and his Italian family after dishonorable discharge, now designated Enemy Aliens by FDR'S decree, to confront his grandfather's funeral, his father's rage and his mother's seizures. 90 min

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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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Shakedown and Joe's harmonica's up for grabs

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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

Drama 90 min

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reworked as Tales Of A Summer Night

Memory struggles against forgetting during Operation Gomorrah in 1943 and again in 1963, as repressed hostilities erupt in murder and suicide

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Catalyst Theater

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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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Two players play all parts. SET: Stage bare except for a pole with a small platform on top center rear. In Scene 1, PROLOGUE, a single club chair; in Scene 2 MOTE IN THE EYE OF GOD, two chairs. In scene 3 CHURCH SCHOOL, two chairs. In scene 4 CONFESSION, a grille separates the two chairs drawn close; in Scene 5 FLAGPOLE, a park bench, In Scene 6 SUBWAY, an old couch.

DR NAGEL: When I was interning at the Brigham they told me we remember the patients most like us and those we'd most like to be like. Well, Daniel's mine. Yes and even I, even I, Dr. Ralph Nagel MD and trustee of Stanford University, even I killed a patient that year. No. Not intentionally. I'd missed the diagnosis. (Pause) Yes. He was a remarkable case. Showed me the inferno and all the dark labyrinths of misery and despair available to us all and so close by really. Took a chill on that pole spouting his nonsense about sainthood. Reminds me of the religious sense of the world we glimpse as children, a theme from which I too can never wholly escape. Had a sick man's command of higher things. Even now I'd stake my professional reputation on my observations.. Anyway, there I was, presumably sane and certainly healthy, telling my colleagues how a train had passed right through this guy leaving a pile of roses.

Theater J Washington DC

30 May 2007

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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

Five minute response to Hannah and Martin

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text is onlin: http://theaterjblogs.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/5x5-hostia-ad-absurdum/

Eva and Hitler H?:How great to see you all here. So you want a story? A story finished in five? But some things are not for me to decide. Like whether we're forgiven. When we die and where. ( Enter EVA listening to ear phones, dancing..) Am I still a stranger to you sometimes? EVA: ?Can't hear. (Earphones off) You should be ashamed. H:?A stranger to you don't I sometimes seem? Ignore her. (To audience) Remember me? I'm your fear. Here's my story. EVA:? Philanderer of the worst sort. Irresistibly attractive? How does newness come into the world? I married him out of cowardliness. Now I'm doing something brave. To be born again first you have to. . . H: ?Salvation damnation, the usual. What angel would not wish to speak to me? Last night a priest told me of a change in his church's attitude towards the Eucharistic wafer. For generations Catholic children were taught the wafer must be held in the mouth and allowed to melt. Why is that? To touch it with the teeth is blasphemous. You know what I mean? I'm speaking.

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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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Story of Hans, a German wartime physician, Uta his old girlfriend, and Uwe an aphasic artist, twenty years after WWII in Germany when survivors with mangled limbs and minds must suppress old memories to survive postwar society. Meeting by chance, Hans and Uta visit the town where they spent the war to confront their demons. The time is 1943, 1963 and an undefined present. The conceit is that there is no unique time but only separate highly subjective recordings of the past and present that run parallel but often contradictory and rarely intersect.

Theater J, Washington DC

2005

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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

5 min Monologue

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Monolog of a photojournalist in Jerusalem based on 'Hannah and Martin'

Catalyst Theater Workshop, Washington

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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

Drama 90 min

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The New Jerusalem Quartet takes on a pick up violist with connections

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Taffety Punk

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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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Goldsmith a mediocre playwright, having written She Stupps To Conquer that has bombed on broadway, receives a catheter change in hospital and dozes off, entering the play he has written and is trying to direct. In the play, Momus, goddess of satire and ridicule, together with Abcynthia, a Bacchusian serving wench, and Sparks their mercurial messenger, conspire to trick Juno, Captain Jove's rigid spouse, by getting Captain Jove to fall in love with Palolo, a rich Samoan Beauty who changes her sex each year when the moon turns. When Juno raises Palolo's veil to see whom her husband is kissing, the moon is already changing, and pandemonium ensues.

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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

Drama 60 min

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The première Parisian performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

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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

Drama 15 min

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A child sends a Christmas package to her father in the Battle of Stalingrad

Theater J Washington, DC

2005

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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

Drama, 5 min

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Alfred North Whitehead who taught at Harvard during the 1920's describing himself as the typical Victorian Englishman, is interviewed by a modern member of the Christian Right. The interviewer, frustrated by Whitehead's answers, blurts out the question he's been waiting to ask -