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The Good News According to St. Dude and Other Plays
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The Good News According to St. Dude and Other Plays

by Paul Dickey

Drama-dramatic-works-by-one-author Paperback 2022 151 pages
$18.99

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The Good News According to St. Dude. A family of young adults in the late 1960’s/ early 1970’s, so-called “hippies,” are disillusioned with society but also become so with their own culture of anti-war and social activism, psychedelic drugs and music, and sexual freedom. Thirty years later, at the turn of a new millennium, they look for psychological, spiritual, and emotional resolution for conflicted memories and feelings of their past and their culture Was “hippie” just another word for "nothing yet to lose"? The Raccoon River. Is this death??? Is There Balm in Gilead. A poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Adapted for the Stage. The Dream that was Still a Nightmare Sometimes dreams survive the horrible. Sometimes dreams will always remain haunted. Sometimes a people are strangers within the community. Sometimes a people have strangers within their community. Sometimes all at the same time. The dream that was still a nightmare plays out under the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the aftermath of the holocaust. Who Says You Can’t Go Home Again. Everybody knows, of course, you can’t home again. Some l literary giant said so, but then what happens when a theatrical giant like Tina who aspires to be the next Albee squares off against that literary giant when entering the Snowdance Comedy Festival? Baby, Did You Tell Sadness Goodbye? In a world aware of magic, Jackie wants to buy a home. But the house that is total her is filled with history and sadness. In this confused collage of fairy tales, there is no Cinderella, Snow White, nor especially a Prince Charming. Saint George the Dragon Slayer will have to do. Just Another Park Bench Play. I know. You've seen every park bench play there is. But have you seen an anti – park bench play? Edward Albee hasn't even seen this one.

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