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POUND Ezra Pound was America’s greatest poet, literary critic, fascist, and anti-semite. Charged with treason and judged insane, Pound dominated St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital much as he had the literary world until, at age 73, he suddenly retreated into an emotional shell from which he never fully emerged. The play, POUND, imagines what might have happened to irreversibly change the character of Ezra Pound.
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RAIN
IN THE HOLLOWS Every family wrestles with its own myths. In RAIN IN THE HOLLOWS a journalist returns to his native West Virginia hollow to confront his larger-than-life brother whose legendary deeds are accompanied by a maddening disregard for rules, laws, or the consequences for his struggling family. How can the journalist and his family reconcile themselves to someone who may be a saint, a sinner, a madman, or all of these?
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WINE
TO BLOOD A character in WINE TO BLOOD says, “All forms of idealism, however well-intentioned, invariably lead to ruin.” Perhaps, but what is the alternative? In WINE TO BLOOD a jaded BBC reporter covering the Spanish Civil War comes face to face with the consequences of unbridled cynicism. Only then can he find the strength to regain his convictions. Inspired by George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia”.
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BENEATH SHELTON LAUREL Commissioned by the Southern Appalachian Rep and based on an actual Civil War era massacre of civilians by the Confederate army, BENEATH SHELTON LAUREL, explores the power of human beings to rationalize, compartmentalize, and otherwise avoid feelings of guilt that would otherwise crush us. Set in a decrepit church thirty years after the fact, two former Confederate officers and the widow of one of their victims struggle to come to terms with the defining event in their lives.
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VALU-MART Two black men – one, a former teacher who still cherishes the idealism of the civil rights era, and the other, a 20 year-old dropout on probation for receiving stolen property – offer compelling and conflicting perspectives on life. When they collide, the results can be terrifying, uplifting, and sometimes both.
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