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6 Plays of death and forgiveness
Hearts
Behind Cut Glass
The Death Spirlal
Marilyn/God
James Dean and the Devil
Montgomery Clift and the All-Girl Fan Club
296 Pages, illustrated.
Volume 3 focuses on the problems of famous actors and
those in the upper classes.
HEARTS deals with the machinations of one upper society
family in New Orleans today.
BEHIND CUT GLASS is a post-Katrina expansion on my one
act WISHING ACES (Pub. in vol 1), and I wanted to bring
in a whole kaleidoscope of New Orleans characters,
boatmen, hunters, Beau, the hero might reckon with on
his flight.
In THE DEATH SPIRAL we travel with Claudia, a murdered
beauty of uncertain age, as she goes forward in time and
sees what happend to her family.
In MARILYN/GOD, Marilyn faces God in the last moments of
her life and she must audition for heaven.
In JAMES DEAN AND THE DEVIL, Jimmy storms his way down a
chaotic highway to discover he is dead and must break
out of hell...
To me writing is like one big crossword puzzle--finding
the word for the slot for the character for the time and
keeping the reader and myself from being bored. When I
write for particular actors, I see them in the roles and
that helps me be specific. I wrote JAMES DEAN,
MONTGOMERY CLIFT and revised HEARTS for my son who
recently graduated from the Yale Drama School.
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