FIVE MORE PLAYS OF CHALLENGED FAITH (The Collected Plays of Eric Samuelsen)

Eric Samuelsen’s playwrighting career has spanned 40 years and produced a body of work almost unparalleled in modern theatre. More than 80 plays, short plays, including a musical or two, and an opera libretto. He has been produced across the nation. His work remains in your heart and mind long after the lights go down or the book closes.• IN THIS VOLUME:• THE WAY WE’RE WIRED • is very much a journey of discovery. It concerns itself with the power and efficacy of change.• FAMILY • real life becomes a bad weekend for the well-educated, intellectual, gospel-grounded, well-to-do Hull family.• THE PLAN • women and men examining agency and adversity, choices and the consequences of choices, pain and difficulty and joy.• MESS OF POTTAGE • a vital lesson on loving with all your heart, because then, maybe, your heart will change a little, too.• IMPRESSIONS ON PLATES OF GOLD • examples of Faith — it is not perfect, not without momentary doubt — but it is perfecting and able to empower each Human soul, impelling them towards their God and Creator.• With an Introduction by Eric Eliason