PLAYS
IMPALA SUICIDE—a two character play about a psychiatrist and a performance artist. Through years of political activism, their friendship and their disillusionment grow. Following the re-election of Bush, the balkanization of corporations, the death of free enterprise and free speech with the Patriot Act that leads to war and atrocities in Iraq, they make a pact to commit suicide in the name of social and economic justice. The play opens as they carry the excesses of their lives into the Brooklyn garage where they plan to fulfill their commitment. Contrasting with the sobriety of political disillusionment, the play also explores their unusual relationship with levity and a personal dimension against the backdrop of a harsher reality as they stage their final protest.
PERSONAL EFFECTS – This one-act play with a diverse cast of characters, who are gay, straight, alive and dead, chronicles the length to which people go to reconcile the loss of a loved one. In their revelry they come to grips with mortality and find their peculiar brands of salvation to suit their own beliefs. The power of the human spirit is served up in a special appearance by the deceased who offers running commentary as they squander not only his personal effects but the pivotal events that constituted his life.
IMPALA SUICIDE—a two character play about a psychiatrist and a performance artist. Through years of political activism, their friendship and their disillusionment grow. Following the re-election of Bush, the balkanization of corporations, the death of free enterprise and free speech with the Patriot Act that leads to war and atrocities in Iraq, they make a pact to commit suicide in the name of social and economic justice. The play opens as they carry the excesses of their lives into the Brooklyn garage where they plan to fulfill their commitment. Contrasting with the sobriety of political disillusionment, the play also explores their unusual relationship with levity and a personal dimension against the backdrop of a harsher reality as they stage their final protest.
PERSONAL EFFECTS – This one-act play with a diverse cast of characters, who are gay, straight, alive and dead, chronicles the length to which people go to reconcile the loss of a loved one. In their revelry they come to grips with mortality and find their peculiar brands of salvation to suit their own beliefs. The power of the human spirit is served up in a special appearance by the deceased who offers running commentary as they squander not only his personal effects but the pivotal events that constituted his life.
