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1987

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1965

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1988

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Synopsis: It is 1854. On a remote stretch of Maine coast live Captain Nathaniel Brockett and his wife, Octavia, lighthouse keepers who have had to move into the tower itself after a terrible winter storm wrecks their cottage. With them is Angeline, the young black woman raised as their daughter. Claiming that she received a head injury during the storm, Octavia begins to have attacks of delirium. Past and present merge for her as she fantasizes about the captain's lustful nature and instigates bizarre arguments with Angeline, mistaking her for a woman who died long ago. The captain tries to divert his wife with romantic tales of his adventures at sea, but her brain fever, it seems, may have other, more sinister roots. As she tries to draw the others into her suddenly realized memories, we discover how Octavia's fears have brought about her own repression as well as her apparent domination over Angeline and Nathaniel. While the captain cannot face the reality of his wife's continuing decline, Angeline can no longer suppress questions about her real mother or her heritage. Racially isolated and kept under Octavia's thumb, Angeline struggles to break free of her stifling environment. She grows stronger as Octavia weakens, but it is only upon Octavia's death that the truths she's been seeking will out, whatever the consequences.

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Synopsis: Amidst the idealism and violence of Freedom Summer in 1964 Mississippi, three college students vanish, seemingly without a trace. As the parents of Honey, Linda, and Wes cope with their loss, they become inescapably linked  the heirs of their lost childrens dreams. Throughout the next three decades, the connections among these people with very disparate backgrounds are tested against the fire of the countrys social and political turbulence. The structure of the play mixes naturalism with a surprising time curve that evokes the whirl of events surrounding the parents interwoven journeys.

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1981

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Synopsis: Josephine Monaghan lived her adult life in the West as a man, with no one knowing her real gender. A debutante in the east, Josephine has a baby out of wedlock, and in order to support it and spare the child any shame, she heads west as Joe, leaving her son, Laddie, with her sister, Helen. Joe carves out a wrangler's life, learning how to live and work like a man. She is befriended by an older cowboy, Fred, who remains her friend for life and who never findswhile she is alivethat Joe is a woman. Joe sends money back home to help raise her son, yet, as time goes on and Laddie grows older, Helen feels he has become her child, and she tells him his mother is dead. Joe finally goes back East to visit, the one time in all her years away, and finds her son thinks her dead. With Helen's explanations and pleading, Joe goes along and meets her son disguised as his mother's old best friend, Fred. Back in the West, as Joe gets older and frail, she remembers her youth, her lover, her child and her first days with Fred. Memories mingle with fantasies of what might have been. Knowing that Fred will find her when she dies, Joe lays out her letters and old belongings; clues to her identity, her cherished "real surprise" for Fred. As her life nears its end, Joe/Josephine grapples with herself, her history and identity. As she prepares to die, she finds peace in the truth of Fred's words, "Kin is plain and simple who you find."

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, AL, USA >>>

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1991

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1984

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Synopsis: The setting of the play is the stylish Manhattan apartment of Rose Weiss, the time 1946. Although born in Poland, Rose, now in her twentie,s came to the United States with her father, Mordechai, at the age of four and is now completely "Americanized." The plan had been for Rose's mother and sister to join the others, but the sister fell ill with scarlet fever, the mother stayed on to care for her, and soon the rise of the Nazis cut off their escape. Their ordeal in the concentration camps, which only the sister survived, has brought a burden of guilt to the aging Mordechai and deeply mixed feelings as he awaits the arrival of his elder daughter, Lusia, who has, at last, found her way to America. With her halting English and old world ways Luisa is a striking contrast to Rose, who is somewhat embarrassed by her rediscovered sister's presence, and fearful that it will threaten her own hard-won independence. Distraught, and concerned that she may never be reunited with her young husband, Lusia embraces a series of memories and fantasies which make real the joys and horrors of her life before the war, from which her father and sister were spared. But when Mordechai gives Rose a letter from her mothera letter left many years earlier with a non-Jewish Polish frienda "proof" of family is somehow restored, and old barriers and griefs give way to a renewed sense of hope and mutual dependenceand the conviction that a better future may yet arise from the bitter ashes of the troubled past.

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Synopsis: December 24th and 25th, amidst cardboard shelters and trash-can hearths, Otis Pope, a sardonic army veteran, decides who is allowed to stay in the enclave, and who must go. Currently part of this "family" are Verna, a disoriented frequently pregnant, sometimes gritty, other times child-like woman; her nameless and mute eight-year-old son; Charlie, a down-on-his-luck unemployed blue collar worker; Azalee Hodge, an outspoken woman trying to climb back up and Filomeno Cordero, a recent immigrant from Central America, who finds the group on Christmas eve. Discovering a worn-out copy of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the group responds to Verna's pleas to re-enact the old story as a gift for her son. She can't wait to be Tiny Tim. The others cast Pope in the Scrooge role, though he resists playing along. In a revisionist inspiration, Pope becomes MC of the "Tiny Tim Telethon." Filo, unfamiliar with the story, assumes a reggae interpretation of the wrong Marley's ghost. Verna becomes delusional, Azalee wants to leave, Charlie tries to keep the peace, but antagonisms, opinions, addictions and moments of violence overtake them. The tale is never completed and the family is broken up, the boy left alone. One by one, willingly or not, the characters depart with no promises for the future, though Pope then grudgingly returns.

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