Developed as part of the Arkansas New Play Festival at Theatre Squared.
Semi-Finalist for the 2021 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. |
In the summer of 1944, Jacob Kohn, a US Army interrogation officer and refugee from Hitler's genocidal war on German Jews, must contend with a high ranking SS officer and a decorated U-boat commander as he races to uncover the location of the German V-2 rocket program. Based on the incredible true story of the joint Army-Navy interrogation program that used recent German and Austrian immigrants, most of them Jews fleeing the Nazi regime, to extract strategic intelligence from German prisoners of war. No torture or physical duress of any kind was permitted. It was purely a battle of wits. The interrogations depicted are based in part on the surviving transcripts of actual interrogations carried out at PO BOX 1142 in 1943 and 1944.
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Developed in part with Sea Dog Theater in New York City and as part of the Arkansas New Play Festival at Theatre Squared.
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Roland Cole, eminent historian of the Western Dinka and chair of the African Studies program at a rural, state university, has been singled out in a lawsuit by a former student accusing the university of creating fake classes to pass star athletes. Over the course of one weekend, Amina, his only daughter, arrives from Yale to stand by his side and defend him tooth and nail, while Arthur, his oldest friend and current dean, urges him to accept an offer from the university to disappear and take the scandal with him. As they battle for Roland's soul, Peter, Amina's white boyfriend from back east, secretly performs an increasingly onerous set of tasks to fulfill a customary Dinka practice of bride service demanded by Roland.
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First produced by Jaradoa Theater in New York City.
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Six months ago Piper met Mollie online, and Mollie changed everything. Now, a knock on the door jolts Piper into the world of flesh and bone. John Sharp. Mollie's brother. He was sent to talk Piper out of the things she's threatening. But John may not be who he claims to be...
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