http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:29634 Search the Channel search http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/simple-search http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:29805 Title: First Love 3.0 <br/> <br/>Author(s): Mee, Charles <br/> <br/>Abstract: Two people in their seventies fall in love--for the first time in their lives. And, as they work their way toward one another through the accumulated baggage of their lives, they move in fits and starts toward sabotaging the last chance for love they'll ever have. 3 actors. First Love was directed by Erin Mee and produced at New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 2001. Note: the .txt file of this play has gibberish characters inserted by software and not the author. A different format is needed. Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:58:59 GMT http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:29804 Title: Requiem for the Dead <br/> <br/>Author(s): Mee, Charles <br/> <br/>Abstract: Composed entirely of fragments from the lost plays of Sophocles, Requiem resurrects random moments of ordinary, mundane, extinct daily life. As one of the characters says, "Time makes all things dark and brings them to oblivion. First you will see a crop in flower, all white; then a round mulberry that has turned red; lastly old age of Egyptian blackness takes over." 9 actors Tue, 29 Oct 0003 22:58:59 GMT http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:29675 Title: Wintertime 3.0 <br/> <br/>Author(s): Mee, Charles <br/> <br/>Abstract: A sweet, dreamy, romantic comedy from the world of The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard and Moliere and Magritte. This play is a companion piece to Summertime, which has the same characters and setting, set in another season. 13 actors Wintertime, directed by Les Waters, was done at La Jolla in the summer of 2002, and at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and in other productions at ACT Seattle, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, the McCarter Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, the Roundhouse Theatre in Washington, Second Stage in New York, and the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia. A NOTE ON THE TEXT: This piece was deeply affected by reading Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, and it incorporates text from Laurie Williams. Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:58:59 GMT http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:29674 Title: War to End War, The <br/> <br/>Author(s): Mee, Charles <br/> <br/>Abstract: A triptych: Part I is the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Part II is a Dadaist vaudeville, as the Dead Soldier rises from the grave as a minstrel comedian and Wittgenstein and Brockdorff-Rantzau become vaudevillians in a variety revue seemingly hosted by Kurt Schwitters, the German artist who created word poetry. Part III is a poker game at Los Alamos. 7 actors The War to End War, directed by Matt Wilder, was produced at the Sledgehammer Theatre in San Diego in 1993. The War to End War incorporates texts from Harold Nicolson's memoirs as well as texts by Tristan Tzara, Hans Richter, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, the letters of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and others. Thu, 29 Oct 1992 22:58:59 GMT