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WAITING FOR GODEX (Tragicomedy in Two Acts)

 

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Waiting for Godex explores the dynamics of waiting. A philosopher down on his luck and his female companion who sucks canceled credit cards are waiting for Godex. Unlike Godot from Waiting for Godot, Godex does show up and gets himself into trouble for not dishing out Òone hundred percent salvation.Ó After celebrating the end of their wait, the tramps dread the existential vacuum once more.

 

Premiered in 1991 at the Greenwich Street Theatre, New York. Directed by Daniel Andries.

Second production: Attic Theatre, Los Angeles, 1993. Directed by Will Aaron.

Third production: Theatre III, Bellingham, Washington, 1998.  Directed by Greg Berry.

Public stage reading by Moving Parts, Paris, 2001. Directed by the author.

 

 

Ò[Godex/Godin] marks what may become a healthy wave of Beckettian revisionism.Ó  The Los Angeles Times

 

Ò...thought provoking and funny as hell.Ó  The Los Angeles Weekly

 

Ò...post-modernist manifesto.Ó  The Village Voice

 

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FLUSH GAME OR THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HENRY MILLER (Cosmic Farce in One Act)

 

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Beyond time and kissing ass, Number 1 and Number 2 flush souls into flesh from the top of a celestial toilet. To pass the time from one flush to the next, they make the fatal mistake of playing "flush game." Their guests are Henry and June, Miller's sexy, shrewd wife.

 

If the leading deity hadn't quit during the dress rehearsal, Flush Game would have premiered some time ago at the Seattle Fringe Festival.

 

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PLAYBOYS OF OUR LADY

 

A comedy about two Romanian refugees undergoing some cultural adjustment in Small Town, USA. When the program that brings refugees to the community is threatened, Doru comes to the rescue of his sponsor, risking losing the girl he loves.

 

This is my first English play. In 1987, an Emmy award-winning director took an interest in it and invited me to Los Angeles, where I met John Wayne's son and a Playboy centerfold turned actress. In the end, nothing came of it.

 

 

 

BEYOND THE STYX NIGHTINGALES DON'T SING is the tragedy of a three-generation family in communist Romania. The story became the central plot in Crossing the Styx.

 

Premiered in 1993 at The New Playwrights Theatre in Seattle. Fred Wolf, the author of the popular Quantum Leap on shamanism, portrayed the Securitate Colonel.