What Really Happened
Issue Date
2009-121-1Author
Smith, Benjamin Ryan
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
94 pages
Type
Thesis
Degree Level
M.A.
Discipline
English
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What Really Happened is a full length psychological drama that follows a Long Island family and the events surrounding and resulting from their interactions with a man who has come to their house seeking vengeance for the death of his son. Themes of violence, excess, and mystery are interwoven with literary and biblical references in this contemporary modernist drama. Cast of two men, four women. The script received a full production at Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS on Nov. 21 and 22 of 2009. Thesis defense passed on Nov. 23 of 2009. It was one of two scripts nominated for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award in Region IV of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2010.
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