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This stage play about pioneer women enduring the hardships and the rewards of crossing the plains and the Continental Divide to reach Colorado is a story depicted in the Women's Gold stitchery that hangs in the Colorado statehouse in Denver. The play presents a rainbow of women pioneers who helped to tame the West. It chronicles their tribulations and their triumphs.

During the 1990s, outside the village of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland, resides the elderly Padric and Schirley Kilhara. Padric is receiving his last rites as the play opens. The lightning bolt that illuminates the large standing stone outside his thatched-roofed cottage is perhaps the finger of God summoning Padric back to life in order to complete the work that must be done before Padric's soul will be freed to meet its maker. Padric, ...

In time, Turlough O'Carolan would come to be heralded as the National Composer of Ireland and the Father of the Jig. AN IRISH SONATA plays out the "sonata" that was Turlough O'Carolan's life. Despite the adversities of blindness and poverty, Turlough bequested an indelible mark on his countrymen.Over one thousand people have come to County Roscommon in Ireland of 1738. Most of these pilgrims are camping out in the fields around Alderford house...

Set in the Smokies of 1910, LORD OF THE SMOKIES is a reimagining of the Phaedra myth, telling the story of moonshiner mountain man Thadius Steed who, after his first two wives died in childbirth, is marrying young Fate O'Dare.. Following the consummation of his marriage, Thadius is pursued by Federal Agents, forcing him to flee the mountains. Thadius asks his younger brother Hyram to take care of Fate for him until he is able to return home. T...

SERENADE chronicles the passing of the torch to the young composer Johannes Brahms, who is mentored by the mentally-deteriorating Robert Schumann and his virtuosa wife Clara Wieck-Schumann. After Robert is institutionalized, Johannes takes on the responsibility of helping to care for the Schumann's seven children, while Clara tours to earn money to support her family. She is forbidden by the doctors from seeing Robert, forcing Johannes to serv...

CLARA & JOHANNES follows the relationship between composer/musicians Johannes Brahms and Clara Wieck Schumann over a time period of 35 years. The play is based on the letters of Clara and Johannes.

LEARNING TO DANCE IN THE RAIN" tells the story of a mother who is forced to say goodbye to her own mother and to let go of her son who is permanently disabled by mental illness. It chronicles the grandmother's gift of love to her grandson when she enables him to be the only person who can release her from her suffering to thereby regain his own sense of self-worth.

SARAH ALDEN RIPLEY was the whetstone for 19th Century Transcendentalists RALPH WALDO EMERSON, HENRY DAVID THOREAU, and NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Together, they shared the environs of Concord's Old Manse. Their spirits are trapped within this historic house built in 1770 and they cannot be released until their "secrets" are shared with a living audience.

The theme of this play is TOLERANCE.ANNE MARBURY HUTCHINSON lived from 1590-1643. She was the daughter of Reverend Francis Marbury, mother of fourteen children, midwife and herbalist, and she was tried twice for heresy in Massachusetts. She believed that good works were the keys to salvation.Although she was excommunicated from the Puritan Church and was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, she managed to evade the gallows noose through...

THE PEACEMAKERS is a two act play about the REAL armistice agreement between two warhorse Generals from opposing sides who risked court martial to meet in secret and broker the peace agreement that ended the American Civil War.

In 450 A.D. Ireland, the Druid CHIEF DUBTACH of Leinster simultaneously fathered a son [BACENE] by his wife, CONDLA, and a daughter [BRIGID] by his bondmaid BROCESA. Condla insisted that the pregnant Brocessa be sold and sent away to Connacht. Irish law demanded that the children of slaves be returned to their original owners upon reaching the age of eight. After the King ordered Dubtach to give 15 year-old Brigid her freedom, she took her vow...

THE SCANDALMAKERS offers a unique view of MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN and the exorcizing of her Frankenstein story during the summer of 1816, while she was a member of the English literati group that was scandalizing Geneva.

FAUSTINE" begins in 1996 at All Soul's College at Oxford University, England, where Faustine White, L.L.D. is a graduate student working on a comparative study "SCIENCE VERSUS RELIGION". With this controversial topic, she?s summoned the Devil's attention and forced herself to explore problems existing at the threshold of the 21st century, where technologies have outpaced human sociological development. The Devil forges a contract with Faustine...

The African mytho-drama WAGADU tells the story of a West African father (BANTU) and his son (BAMAKO) who search for the spiritual salvation for their drought-stricken tribe. Their quest is triggered by Bamako's dream commanding him to search out the four Wagadus--in the west, in the north, in the east, and in the south of Africa.

Vocal music based on the Bible [Torah portions], Jewish liturgy, Jewish holidays, and Israel.

FELIX & FANNY provides a look into the loves and career frustrations of the musician-siblings, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. This two person dramatic play explores the sexist and anti-Semitic German society of 1821-1847 that prevented Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel from developing concert skills like her illustrious brother Felix, who published many of Fanny's compositions under his own name.

THE WETBACK" tells the story of Ernesto Sanchez, a 16 year-old undocumented farm laborer accused of murdering his employer's son. The story is presented as a juvenile hearing in two-act dramatic form that takes place over the course of a single day in July of 1976 against the backdrop of the United States Bicentennial.

In 1840 Leipzig, Germany, after four years of being refused the hand of Friedrich Wieck's daughter, Robert Schumann was finally forced to take legal steps--required by Saxony law -- in order to win a court dispensation giving him permission to marry his beloved virtuosa interpreter of his music, Clara Wieck. In the ensuing courtroom battle, Clara's two male counterparts --her father and her lover -- project their contrasting visions for Clara ...