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Magna Carta

Magna Carta Magna Carta is an unproduced six episode television drama series. It is also a full-length play called Treason. It is also a very dense one-act play named Treason (which was shortlisted for the East Anglia New Writing Award in 2017).    It is a story bigger than any particular form, bigger than the…
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Bill Clinton Hercules

Bill Clinton Hercules “…fascinating, revelatory and authentic . . . "  Ann Cox, Stage Review Plot: A monologue. In the middle of a TED talk about a Seamus Heaney play, the 42nd President is overcome with the errors of neoliberalism. Running time:  85 min, no interval Production History: Theater Passe Muraille, Toronto, 2016 Park Theatre,…
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Kerching

Kerching Before the collapse of the sub-prime loan market, camera phones and Black Lives Matter, it was 1997, and no one had ever heard of the sub-prime real estate market or a thing called predatory lending. Earl Johnson wants to fight his foreclosure, but he’s stuck with a girl as his pro bono attorney. Rebekah…
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This is Water

This Is Water “..There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other…
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Damnation of John Smith

Damnation of John Smith Kurt Cobain, Frank Sinatra and Lizzie Borden explain to a dead lawyer why he failed at life. Running time 20 min. Written with August Matteis, Jr. Characters: KURT COBAIN.  Dead musician, now a caseworker at the center. FRANK SINATRA. Dead musician, also a caseworker. LIZZIE BORDEN. Dead murderer, Kurt and Frank’s…
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Pressing Violet

Pressing Violet Running time: 55 min Setting:  Argyle Square, near King’s Cross Station, London. The actual year is hotly disputed. Characters: MARIANO BELLEFLEURIA: An Italian immigrant ice cream vendor in 1871 VIOLET JONES: King’s Cross Development Corporation executive in 2003 DAVE WALKER: Stoned American backpacker and survivor of the King’s Cross tube fire in 1987…
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