Scot Lahaie

• Sep-2002
• / General Fiction
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Located on the thirteenth floor of the Dallas Grand Hotel, the cattleman's suite is the chosen site of Julie Drithers' not-so-happy engagement party. Her father, a once wealthy but now almost bankrupt Texas oilman, has rented the old suite again to c...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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Located on the thirteenth floor of the Dallas Grand Hotel, the cattleman's suite is the chosen site of Julie Drithers' not-so-happy engagement party. Her father, a once wealthy but now almost bankrupt Texas oilman, has rented the old suite again to c...

• Jun-2006
• / Literary
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The six one-act plays in this collection were first performed in the New Plays Festival at Gardner-Webb University in 2005. The Festival is an initiative of the theater program at GWU dedicated to developing new plays and encouraging early-career pla...

• Jun-2006
• / General Fiction
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The six one-act plays in this collection were first performed in the New Plays Festival at Gardner-Webb University in 2005. The Festival is an initiative of the theater program at GWU dedicated to developing new plays and encouraging early-career pla...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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Dr. Jake McKenzie, Dallas' famed suicide doctor, is on trial. Mike Howard, a vigilante from the far political right, plays judge, jury, and executioner to the kidnapped doctor. Political and religious ideologies collide as the two urban titans grappl...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Big Brother 2014 is a techno-savvy blend of theater and media that takes its inspiration from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. The play is set in a not-too-distant future in a declining America where political apathy has led to the rise of a sec...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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GADFLY explores the power of the establishment to determine what we call accepted Truth, and chronicles how it has historically been the outsider that has moved our understanding of Truth forward. The play is a cosmic Cabaret where special guests are...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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In Gloria Dei, a court order allows a brain-dead woman to die of starvation, but she is poisoned before her body gives way to deprivation. A priest is accused of the crime. Is it murder or mercy killing? Forced to stand against the tyranny of an unet...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Luminarium is a dramatic retelling of the conversion of King Drtad, the first of the Armenian kings to embrace the Christian faith. The action of the play is set in 284 A.D. in the Palace of King Drtad where Gregory has laid aside his noble pedigree ...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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Three Plays. Three Hotly-Contested Social Issues. One Powerful Collection. Ideologies collide in Dogfall as a suicide doctor and his rival grapple for the political high ground. Winner of the Getchell Award, this play is an unflinching exploration of...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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Joe is white, southern, and the chair of the local Right-to-Life committee. His wife, Mary, was raped by a black man, and is now pregnant. Joe's southern upbringing makes the thought of bringing this child into the world unbearable, so he wants to ab...

• Jan-2020
• / Christian
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MYSTERIUM is a powerful dramatic retelling of the historical events surrounding the trial and public burning of Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of the Anglican Church. The action of the play is set in England in 553 A.D. as Mary ascen...

• Feb-2020
• / General Fiction
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PURGATORIUM tells the story of two total strangers who wake up in a maximum-security holding cell without any memory of how they got there. Isolated from their previous lives and the outside world, they search for what common ground they might share,...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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BIG BROTHER 2024 is a techno-savvy blend of theater and media that takes its inspiration from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. An update of an earlier play, the action is set in a not-too-distant future in a declining America where political apa...

• Sep-2020
• / Christian
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SO YOU THINK YOU CAN WORSHIP tells the good news story of Christ's birth, as seen through the eyes of some very ordinary people. Moreover, they each share a unique Hebrew word for the act of worship, which brings a rich perspective on what it means t...

• Oct-2022
• / Christian
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In 2007, a college theater program mounted a daring deconstruction of Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, King Lear. The resulting performance text moves past the psychological portrait of an aging monarch given us by Modernist interpreters of the sta...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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The Collected Plays, Volume One brings together under one cover seven full-length plays by American playwright Scot Lahaie, which range from political drama to ironic comedy. The award-winning play DOGFALL is an unflinching exploration of the politic...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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The Collected Plays, Volume Two brings together under one cover six full-length plays and two short plays by American playwright Scot Lahaie, which range from historical drama to musical comedy. Political and religious ideologies collide in MYSTERIUM...