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Recovering playwright, once won a STRANGER Genius Award for theater. Now writing a bloated novel about… G-d help me! Theatre.

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  • THE SEQUENCE now Half-Price

    THE SEQUENCE now Half-Price

    Just slashed the price of the Kindle version of my play The Sequence. To order the digi-script, hit my page for the play here and then click through the Amazon badge pictured just to the right of the synopsis.

    The Sequence dramatizes the real-life race to decode the genetic instructions for building a human being.  The play world-premiered in 2008 produced by The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, California. 

    Here’s a little teaser:

    Renegade researcher Craig Venter develops a controversial “shotgun” technique for sequencing DNA, then quits the NIH over an institutional lack of imagination. He quickly makes a fortune in the private sector, and becomes simultaneously the most loved and hated scientist in the world.

    A folksy doctor named Francis Collins inherits the U.S. government’s Human Genome Project. When his victory in the sequencing race is threatened by Venter, he quickly makes the transition from apparent bumpkin to fierce competitor.

    Journalist Kellie Silverstein cuts her teeth on the biggest science story of all time, while simultaneously running a race with her own mortality.

    In the competition to sequence the human genome, will the grand prize be the public good or private profit? And how will three people, amid the frenzied race to determine what makes a human being, discover their humanity?

     Kerri Krause, Hugo Armstrong and William Salyers as Kellie, Venter and Collins

    So if you dig electronic versions of play scripts (and really, who doesn’t?) then order a copy of The Sequence now, because supplies of these electron configurations are going fast!  (186,000 miles per second, to be exact.)

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    Note: other scripts of mine currently available on Kindle include:  Louis Slotin Sonata, Tuesday, The Ten Thousand Things and The Don Juan Cult Concerto.

    Posted at 11:17 AM in American History, Science, Scripts | Comments (0)

    Tags: Boston Court, Francis Collins, Hugo Armstrong, Human Genome Project, Human Genome Race, J. Craig Venter, Kerri Krause, Kindle play script, Paul Mullin, science in theatre, science play, The Sequence, Theatre, William Salyers

  • Huge High Five to Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena

    They just announced their 2010 season and it’s a slate of four world premiere plays!

    http://www.bostoncourt.com/the_sea.htm

    What’s even cooler about this is that Boston Court isn’t mandated to do all brand new work, they just want to.  They’re committed to it, in fact, and not just fancy, such as some facile codicil of their mission statement or as an utterly empty quote for The New York Times.

    When we build the West Coast Pipeline of plays, you can bet they’ll be a player, as will Tom Jacobson, my colleague and co-conspirator in said pipeline planning.  After retiring as Boston Court’s Literary Manager, he’s world premiering his The Twentieth-Century Way in May, ’10.  I really hope I get to see it, and also The Good Book of Pendantry and Wonder.

    If you’re in So Cal, check them out.  If you’re not, then keep your eye on them, or do what I do, and send ’em a little money.  They’re worth it. (And you won’t hear me say that about most begging theaters.)

    Posted at 11:17 AM in American History, Science, Scripts | Comments (0)

    Tags: Boston Court, Francis Collins, Hugo Armstrong, Human Genome Project, Human Genome Race, J. Craig Venter, Kerri Krause, Kindle play script, Paul Mullin, science in theatre, science play, The Sequence, Theatre, William Salyers