SIX 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:• LETTER FROM A PROPHET • the story of a mother and a son, as they re-connect with their faith, until tragedy happens again.• PRAYERS FROM WINTER QUARTERS • 5 short scenes about the faith in a mother’s prayer• ACCOMODATIONS • In a place where love and brutality must co-exist, what compromises are acceptable• THE SEATING OF SENATOR SMOOT • is a dynamic play about personal integrity, religious hypocrisy and religious and political freedom.• WITHOUT ROMANCE • Set on a mission in Norway, we find that the concepts and conflicts that sometimes divide us, that really should unite us through tolerance and understanding.• GADIANTON • What makes our acts moral? Is any practice “just business”? Or is every decision is personal• With an Introduction by Thomas F. Rogers