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¥ La Traversee du Styx (Recrossing the Styx)

¥ A Marquise of Our Time

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Plays: a Tragedy, a Comedy, a Farce & a Highly Controversial Sequel

¥ Godex/Godin

¥ Flush Game, or the Gospel According to Henry Miller

¥ Playboys of Our Lady

¥ Beyond The Styx Nightingales DonÕt Sing

 

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A Tragedy, A Comedy, A Farce & A Highly Controversial Sequel

(ISBN: 978-0-9789803-5-1, Forked Tongue)

 

GODEX/GODIN (single set, five characters) is the controversial sequel to Waiting for Godot which explores the dynamics of waiting. A philosopher down on his luck and his female companion who sucks cancelled credit cards are waiting for Godex. Unlike Godot, Godex does show up and gets himself into trouble for not dishing out one hundred percent salvation. 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. 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.