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| Two acts. Unit set. 3 males (20s), 1 male (40s), 1 female (40s). | |
| Daniel wants nothing more than to break free from the wretched flesh that tethers him. He’s beyond weird—and painfully aware of the effect his unsettling behavior has on others. He seeks transformation—the realization of his “innerness,” as he puts it, “the luminosity” of his being. But being lifted up can be truly terrifying... | |
| “Brilliantly evocative language...wonderfully human characters...the play is smart, hilarious, and heartfelt”—Bryan Fonseca, Producing Director, The Phoenix Theatre. Gravitation and Ascent was a finalist in The Phoenix Theatre’s Festival of Emerging American Theatre. | |
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| Two acts. Unit set. 2 males (20s), 1 male (80), 1 female (20s to 40s), 1 female (50s). | |
| Young archaeologist Christopher knows what he wants: “I want every eye to look upon me, every knee to bend. I want lips to part and say, he is a god among us.” At a site halfway round the globe, he digs, certain that what he’s about to unearth will bring him fame. He discovers instead that there are thin places in the universe—places where the visible and the invisible meet. That your heart takes you there, ready or not. And whatever happens there, happens to awaken you. | |
| “Nothing if not ambitious...imaginatively evocative...an impressive undertaking”—Bay Area Reporter | |
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| Two acts. Unit set. 6 males (20s to 50s), 2 females (20s to 50s). | |
| Felix Yusupov is a self-indulgent aristocrat obsessed with messianic delusions, tortured by his sexuality, desperate for greatness. Determined to answer his divine calling, he hatches a grandiose scheme to destroy Rasputin and bring salvation to the tsar and Mother Russia. The scheme is a fiasco, and its consequences for Yusupov are the very opposite of his intent. With Rasputin dead, he is left facing the one thing he fears most—the darkness in his own soul. | |
| Ourselves, Our Foes was winner of the American Theatre Ventures National Playwrights Contest and the Sonoma County Playwrights Festival. | |
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| Ten-minute play. Bare stage. 1 male (18). | |
| A good deed can have disastrous consequences—even when all you’re trying to do is help your poor dad prove that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays was the Earl of Oxford. Okay, maybe you shouldn’t try forging a whole new frigging undiscovered play by Shakespeare—even if you’re lucky enough to have your imaginary friend, the proto-Romantic boy-poet Thomas Chatterton, helping you. Or so the hapless teenage Billy discovers. | |
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  lives
and writes in La Honda, California. Jeff's most recent play, Gravitation
and Ascent, was workshopped at Theatre Rhinoceros after receiving a
reading at Damesrocket Theatre in Tucson. In 2002, Gravitation and Ascent
was a finalist in the Phoenix Theatre’s Festival of Emerging American
Theatre. More... |
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| Copyright 2001-2010 Jeffrey Alan Schwamberger. All Rights Reserved. |