Publisher's Synopsis
Eric Samuelsen's playwrighting career has spanned 40 years and produced a body of work almost unparalleled in modern theatre. More than 80 plays, short plays, including a musical or two, and an opera libretto. He has been produced across the nation. His work remains in your heart and mind long after the lights go down or the book closes.- IN THIS VOLUME: - GHOSTS - an Ibsen classic translated and adapted by a master- 3 - three plays for three women about living up to our own expectations- CLEARING BOMBS - during WW2, on a rooftop, three men attempt to define a future none of them are sure they will live to see (Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize)- THE KREUTZER SONATA - music that for one man provokes passions so intense that there is a murder- THE ICE FRONT - a true story of the Nazi invasion of Norway during WW2; does a theatre company give in, or continue the resistance?- MOUNT VERNON - George Washington as you never knew him, visited by a descendant of one of his slaves.- With an Introduction by Melissa Leilani Larson - All of these plays premiered at Plan-B Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. A professional company dedicated to socially conscious theatre created by local authors, with world views and themes that are universal.
