Works tagged with ‘unit set’
The Blue-Sky Boys
A play about the first Apollo moon landing and the people on the ground who made it happen. The Blue-Sky Boys dramatizes the imaginative and somewhat unorthodox creative process used by a group of maverick engineers to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth. There are extended sequences that dramatize the “encounters” they had with such influences as Buck Rogers, Icarus, Galileo, Apollo, the Red Baron, Louis Leaky and others. A story about the intersection of creativity and science, The Blue-Sky Boys is a play in two acts with an all-male cast. Although inspired by history, the play is a work of fiction.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology project. (more…)
Into the Fire
Set against the evocative and extreme landscape of the Alaskan wilderness, Into the Fire explores the boundaries between the personal and the political when a woman’s awakening throws a remote island community into chaos. A story about the search for identity in the last frontier, the play is peopled with characters living in isolation on the outer edges of America where landscape makes an indelible mark on the psyche and imagination, giving rise to personalities as enlarged and extreme as the place they inhabit. Described as “Magic Realism with an Alaskan twist” Into the Fire also explores betrayal, rebirth, and community.
Awards: L. Arnold Weissberger Award.; written in Mexico on a NEA International residency fellowship. Rhode Island winner of the Clauder Competition; finalist, National Play Award.
Published by Samuel French.
Development: National Playwright’s Conference (The O’Neill); Australian National Playwright’s Conference; New Plays Festival at Charlotte Rep; Urban Stages, NYC.
