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Mark Lee

MARK LEE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Mark W. Lee is an American novelist, children's book writer, poet and playwright. He has worked as a war correspondent and some of these real-life experiences have appeared in his fiction

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below is a list of Mark Lee's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         American Romance, An         California Dog Fight         Century City         Pirates         Private Room, The         Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad

American Romance, An

Synopsis:
Massachusetts, 1841 . . . Brook Farm, one of the first utopian communities in America, is a retreat for scholars and artists of the day -- including author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Intellectual reason is challenged as ideals of a "New America" clash with the desires of the human heart.

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Road Theatre in Los Angeles    1997

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California Dog Fight

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set at an illegal dog fight the Sacramento delta

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Century City

Synopsis:
about sexual harrassment and involved, in that version, a well known male athlete and his female lawyer defending him from spoUSAl abuse charges

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WPA Theatre in New York    1998

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Pirates

Synopsis:
the play tells the parallel stories of four women trying to find their way in a man's world, the setting continually shifting from the early eighteenth century Caribbean, aboard an english frigate, to a modern day university History department, where academics take a back seat to bureaucracy and power struggles

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Private Room, The

Synopsis:
"America is at war, says a Wall Street trader in Mark Lee's new play, "to defend our way of life". the Private Room scrutinises that way of life, and finds within it the seeds of the Bush administration's casual violence. Its heroine is Barbara, a junior trader in a Manhattan bank who serves a year as an interrogator at Guantanamo Bay. the writer's own political sympathies often swim too close to the surface, as Barbara's Cuban experience exposes the shallowness of her domestic life. But, however schematically, Lee establishes persuasive parallels between US foreign policy and the macho amorality of Wall Street capitalism. We're talking here about a culture that defines people by their "number" - the amount they intend to earn before quitting. Virtue is, according to Barbara's flash colleague Lawrence, "what you pretend to have until somebody makes you the right offer". Small wonder she's shocked to meet the manacled Pakistani detainee, Salman, who would kill for what he believes in. the most Dramatic, if least likely, sequences in the play show the relationship between inmate and interrogator growing intimate. Common humanity cancels out the clash of civilizations. then Salman is left to his fate, and Barbara goes home. Her volte-face conversion from materialism may barely be justified by what we've seen of her Guantanamo experiences - which are quite mild. It's equally hard to see how her chosen means of redemption back in New York relate to the war on terror. ", Guardian

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Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad

Synopsis:
the place is Nairobi, Kenya, where Dove, a brittle, aging correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, brings home a young American "stringer" named Neal, who has been expelled from neighboring Uganda for reasons not yet fully explained. Worried about his own position, because of previous negligence, Dove hopes to use the story of Neal's expulsion to his own advantage, and he enlists the services of two black prostitutes to help him get at the truth of what happened. One of the girls, Mary, is a world-wise Kenyan who has become skillful at playing the sexy fool for the white man; the other, Christina, is a former student from Uganda who fled her country after being raped and brutalized by government troops. It is Christina who is delegated to pry Neal's story from him but, as the two exchange confidences, it becomes disturbingly clear that both are idealists who have been defiled-and violated-by the terrors of modern Africa, and neither can betray the other. eventually the sardonic Dove does learn the truth-that Neal, in his careless reporting of a story about local dissidents, precipitated the massacre of an entire village-but his triumph is a hollow one and, as the play ends, even Dove is sobered by the realization that he, and his fellow europeans, have done little to alleviate and much to exacerbate the failings that they now so smugly and cynically report to the world beyond.

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Genre:
Drama, full length

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