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POUND is Sean O'Leary's third play and will receive its professional premiere in the fall of 2004 at The Washington Stage Guild in Washington, DC. It is also scheduled for productions at The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Towngate Theatre, and The Village Theater at Cherry Hill. It was the winner of the 2004 Pittsburgh New Play Festival and was nominated for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. POUND has received readings at Round House Theatre, The Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Catalyst Theatre, and Tri-State Actors Theater. Additional readings are scheduled for Abingdon Theatre in New York and The Playwrights Collective at The Brookfield Theatre for The Arts. The West Virginia Commission on The Arts has recognized POUND by awarding Sean its biennial Fellowship for Drama.
Winner and Production - Pittsburgh New Play Festival, January 2004
Production – Towngate Theatre; August/September 2004
Staged Reading - Round House Theatre, October 2003
Staged Reading - Orlando Shakespeare Festival, January 2004
Staged Reading - Abingdon Theatre, Date TBD
Staged Reading - Tri-State Actors Theatre, June 2003
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During World War II the American poet, Ezra Pound, made propaganda broadcasts for Mussolini’s fascist government. As a result, he was charged with treason. But, before he could be tried, Pound was judged to be mentally unfit to stand trial and was remanded to the custody of St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital, where he would remain from 1945 until 1958 when the indictment was dismissed and he was released. Near the end of his stay, this aggressive and manipulative man, who dominated St. Elizabeth's much as he had the literary world in the first half of the 20th century, suddenly retreated into an emotional shell and, eventually, "The Great Silence" – a period of despair and seclusion from which he never fully recovered. The play, Pound, imagines what might have happened in those last days at St. Elizabeth’s to irreversibly change the character of Ezra Pound. |
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