Who Lives? - Softcover

Meeks, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847283756 ISBN 13: 9781847283757

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle selected kidney disease victims from a pool for an experiment with something new: a kidney dialysis machine. If the experiment worked, a small number of people would live instead of surely die from kidney failure. But who among the pool lives? How will the committee choose? Based on that premise and creating his own committee, playwright Christopher Meeks centers the action on one person, attorney Gabriel Hornstein, who desperately needs what the committee offers. In a review of the play in Los Angeles, the LA Weekly wrote, "Christopher Meeks takes this factual scenario and transforms it into a thought-provoking drama, which relates a timely story about both ethics and morals.... Meeks script is smartly written."

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Meeks writes fiction and plays. His produced plays include "Who Lives?," "Suburban Anger," and "Fiveplay." He has had stories published in several literary journals and his collected short stories, "The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea," earned fabulous reviews in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, as well as a mention in Entertainment Weekly as one of five best books from a small publisher. He is now putting finishing touches on two novels. He's published four children's books, reviewed theatre for seven years for Daily Variety, has had two screenplays optioned and another win the Donald Davis Dramatic Writing Award; he also teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension, CalArts, and Art Center College of Design, and English at Santa Monica College. Visit his website at: www.chrismeeks.com

Review:

"Christopher Meeks takes a factual scenario and transforms it into a thought-provoking drama." --LA Weekly, Pick of the Week

"Those who have personal experience with its topic should bring Kleenex." -David Nichols, Los Angeles Times.

"Meeks's play deals with issues of life and death, the value of the human soul, and the strictures of personal value systems that stand in the way of, rather than help make, difficult decisions." -Back Stage West

"To personalize the astronomically difficult task of the committee, Meeks has created a distrinctively complex character in Gabriel. When the dying Gabriel discovers the committee has passed him over, he utlizes his ruthless abilities of persuasion to gain the treatment he needs to stay alive. -Daily Variety

About this edition

• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1847283756
• ISBN 13: 9781847283757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 119