Updated 11/29/07
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SONGS IN A STRANGE LAND  The time of the action is the ten years from 1968 to1978. Sophie Clery, a combat nurse in Vietnam, furloughed home for wounds in the action that earned her a Silver Star. Not long after settling in NYC's Greenwich Village, her small flat becomes a mecca for five more male and female vets, who, with two non-vets as "significant others," make up the cast. The course of the action over the next few years is concerned with their various methods of healing the trauma of an unpopular war; with keeping faith with each other when the surrounding society does not; and in the process of this healing, Sophie - who can't find word as her outlet for expression - becomes a World Class artist. The title is from: Psalm 137: "We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" FOR PERFORMANCE RIGHTS:
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THE MUTILATORS
 The Time is 415 BC; the Place, Athens. On the eve of troops embarking for the largest amphibious operation ever, an over-zealous politician sets out to bring down his commander-in-chief on moral grounds. In process of his pursuit of his victim there are many collateral victims. One of them, while on trial, astonishes his accusers by requesting that he be considered innocent until proven guilty. The Mutilators of the title refers to an act of vandalism that is the pretext for launching the reign of political terror - and to the men who tear apart the body politic --- when the damage done to the democracy signals the beginning of the end of their Golden Age. FOR PERFORMANCE RIGHTS:
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A BLANKET FOR JANOS  The play begins with a Requiem Mass for the dead of Budapest. In civil war street fighting, the warring parties - Russian and Hungarian - pause to wonder why their weapons suddenly won't fire; who that Audience that they can see, is; what that audience is doing on Karloti Street; and why they have come. The Doctor-Narrator answers by wondering if the Audience has been brought before the Actors or the Actors have been brought before the Audience -- or if both have been brought before another kind of judgment... We are in Budapest during 1955-56 when it was victimized by the Cold War. But historically, the country has always been sandwiched between more powerful countries...The Set is appropriately a reflection of the mood of the play...All theatrical pretensions are gone. With nothing but cold facts, the audience-actor-jury must now pass a verdict on who is to blame, who is accountable. FOR PERFORMANCE RIGHTS:
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