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M E H Lewis

M E H LEWIS

  (? - 2016)
Nationality:    USA
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aka Margaret Lewis

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of M E H Lewis's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All Good Children Go To Heaven         Burying the Bones         Charms For Protection         Fellow Travellers         Freshly Fallen Snow         Here Where It's Safe         Return To Haifa         Thirst

All Good Children Go To Heaven

Synopsis:
A popular and successful preacher begins to doubt if there is a Hell. An old friend of hers an atheist starts to doubt her beliefs

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Written by Barbara Lhote and M E H Lewis

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Burying the Bones

Synopsis:
In post-apartheid South Africa, a woman goes to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hoping to learn details of what happened to her husband, who disappeared two years earlier following his arrest. While at the Commission, the woman confronts the white police officer who tortured and possibly killed her husband, and learns that the truth is more complicated and devastating than she suspected.

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nominated for A Joseph Jefferson Award for best new work

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Stage Left Theatre In Chicago     2005

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Charms For Protection

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Fellow Travellers

Synopsis:
Fellow Travellers deals with personal betrayal in a time of political upheaval. the play moves back and forth between two time periods, 1930s Germany and 1970s California. as the Weimar Republic collapses and the National Socialists seize power, two artists and close friends struggle with politics, censorship and personal ambition. One is labeled a degenerate while the other climbs to success. the survivor emigrates to California, becoming a world-renown artist. Forty years later, a surprise visitor forces him to face the choices he has made and the toll they have taken.

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Won 2007 Joseph Jefferson prize for Best New Work.

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Stage Left Theatre In Chicago     2007

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Freshly Fallen Snow

Synopsis:
A doctor discovers a way to edit people's memories

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Chicago Dramatists, Chicago     28 Sep 2013

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Here Where It's Safe

Synopsis:
Women desperate for a child

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Stage Left Theatre, Chicago     13 Feb 2010

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Return To Haifa

Synopsis:
Two couples a Palestinian couple who fled from their home in Haifa in 1948 and the Jewish holocaust survivors who have lived in the house since

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Thirst

Synopsis:
In an "untouchable" village in India water is in short supply. a young reporter investigates the water supply company. Things take a different turn when her sister disappears

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Written by Anita Chandwaney and M E H Lewis

1st Produced:
O'Neill Conference     2011

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