2 hrs. 3W 18-30; 1M 20-35 Full length, two-act poetic drama. Based on the poetry and early lives of the authors of Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall. One summer, a young man named William Weightman comes to study with their father, Reverend Brontë, at their isolated Yorkshire parsonage home. Weightman's intoxicating presence inspires their burning passions and forever changes Anne, Charlotte, and particularly Emily.

Winner of the 1995 Austin Critics Table Award, the Live Oak Award for New Play Development, and the Richard and Betty Burdick National Playwight's Festival.

SARAH WHO SAVED THANKSGIVING

approx. 2 hrs., w/music. 10 W, 17 M, 1 boy, can be doubled to 4 W, 5 M, 1 boy. The play celebrates the life and struggles of the little known "mother of Thanksgiving," Sarah Josepha Hale. As the editress of one of the first ladies' magazines, Godey's Ladies Book, Hale influences the reading, learning, economic and political consciousness of women across America. As The Civil War begins, Hale campaigns for Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Hale's flaw of conservatism is revealed: but she is nonetheless applauded for her contributions.

50 min. version also in development.

MAYS & TERESE

2 hrs., 2 W. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was easily one of the most beloved figures of our times: TIME dubbed Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the founder of American Atheists, as "the most hated woman in America." These two women were on a mission to make the world a better place, but with radically different means. This play is a fantasy based in a plausibility: what if "Mays" and "Terese" had known and influenced each other? (mature language)

Developed at the New Harmony Project, with the assistance of the City of Austin Arts Commission, and produced at Bloomington Playwright's Project.

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