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From Romania to France via America Novels ¥ La Traversee du Styx (Recrossing the
Styx) Plays: a Tragedy, a Comedy, a Farce &
a Highly Controversial Sequel ¥ Flush Game, or the Gospel According to
Henry Miller ¥ Beyond The Styx Nightingales DonÕt Sing |
A Tragedy, A Comedy, A Farce & A Highly Controversial
Sequel (ISBN:
978-0-9789803-5-1, Forked Tongue)
Premiered in
1991 at the Greenwich Street Theatre, New York. Second production: Attic
Theatre, Los Angeles, 1993. Third production: Theatre III, Bellingham,
Washington, 1998. 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 Click here
for ÒThe Playwright Takes the StandÓ (essay) and the first act. FLUSH GAME, or
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HENRY MILLER (single set, four characters), is a farce of cosmic proportions.
Beyond time and kissing ass, Number 1 and Number 2 flush souls into flesh
from the top of a cosmic 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 in 1994 at the
Seattle Fringe Festival. Click here
for a sample scene. PLAYBOYS OF
OUR LADY (single set, seven characters) is 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, even if it means losing the girl he loves. This is my
first English play and my first brush with fame. In 1987, an Emmy
award-winning director took an interest in my comedy 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. Click here
for a sample scene. BEYOND THE
STYX NIGHTINGALES DON'T SING (single set, six characters) is the tragedy of a
three-generation family in communist Romania. This is the play that inspired Recrossing
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. Click here
for a sample scene. |