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A B Asher

A B ASHER  

 Nationality:    USA
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A.B. ASHeR (Playwright) is a native of the Bronx. He has completed a cycle of full-length plays, Competing Narratives, Pedestrian Crossing, Gibeah, Revelation, and Broken Soul, which received a 2006 Pilgrim Project Play Development Grant. He has also completed shorter pieces including two one-acts, animum Reflectere and Hermanos, and four ten-minute pieces, Candid Date, P.O.C., Play Ground, and Flight.

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         Animum Reflectere         Broken Soul         Candid Date         Competing Naratives         Flight         Gibeah         Hermanos         Pedestrian Crossing         Play Ground         Poc         Revelation

Animum Reflectere

Synopsis:
Graham who is Jewish and gay meets Horace an afro-American at High School. they become friends. Later they both take up teaching and Horace marries. When his marriage fails he meets Graham again and they fall in love. Horace campaigns for Civil Rights but wants their relationship kept hidden. He is beaten to death by a group of white yobs and Graham learns of the strides Horace had been making in reconciling both sides of his life.

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Broken Soul

Synopsis:
Family fights racism between 1967 to 1989

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Candid Date

Synopsis:
a senator is about to announce his bid to be the next president. a reporter senses that there is something going on between the senator and his right hand man. She is told that it is nonsense as the senator has just lost his wife to cancer. However, when he announces his candidacy he does it as a Gay American

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Competing Naratives

Synopsis:
Henry, a afro-American has spent part of his life passing as white. He is a journalist and is interviewing adam a gay man passing as straight. But there is a hidden agenda- both men were at college together. When Henry could no longer stand the deception of passing for white he goes to his professor for advice - he is told to be himself. Later the professor is beaten to death by a group of white yobs. Henry is so angry that he attacks the first white person he meets. It is adam and since that time adam believed it was a gay bashing. When Henry tells him what had happened adam tells him that the professor was not attacked because he was black but because he was gay and the leader of the college gay group.

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Flight

Synopsis:
Seth is summonded to the hospital where his sister, abby, is a patient. they have been estranged for some time. abby has repeatedly tried to commit suicide and finally has told her doctor that it was because she was abused as a child. But Seth says that it was he who was abused by their Father starting when he was eight until he was seventeen when he left home. His mother and sister were compliant in the abuse. When Seth left abby poisoned her Father hoping that it would please her brother but he wants nothing to do with the family.

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Gibeah

Synopsis:
Steven a gay High School teacher is accused of racism and dismissed. His partner adam believes that there was more to this. He discovers that the Head is homophobic and used the racism accusation to rid the school of a gay teacher who was about to marry his partner.

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Hermanos

Synopsis:
a devout Jew and a devout Muslim arrive at a DNa testing clinic to discuss the results of their tests

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Pedestrian Crossing

Synopsis:
Steven a gay 28 year old travels to Manhatten for his sister Hattie's 30th birthday. When they were children their Father was sexually abusing Hattie but she would not tell their mother about it. So Steven tells his mother that the Father was sexually abusing him.

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Play Ground

Synopsis:
Bonecrusher a macho black teenage boy dressed in hip-hop gear is in the playground listening to his music. He is joined by a white teen dressed in 70s disco gear who listens to his music. and then a black teenage girl dressed in 60s Tamla Motown outfit dances.

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Poc

Synopsis:
Boutros is facing execution for renouncing Islam and becoming a Christian.

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Revelation

Synopsis:
Could it be possible that the baby Libby is expecting is to be the Messiah?

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