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Kristine Thatcher

KRISTINE THATCHER

  
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Kristine Thatcher's plays at Victory Gardens include Among Friends (winner of the 1997 Scott McPherson Memorial Award), Emma's Child (winner of the 1995 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a 1997 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the 1997 RESOLVE Award for ExcEllence in the Arts, the 1997 Cunningham Prize for Playwriting from DePaul University and the 1997 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work), Voice of Good Hope (nominated for 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work). Her play Under Glass premiered at Luna Stage in 2005. She has taught at Columbia College, Lake Forest College, and is the newly-appointed artistic director of the BoarsHead Theater.

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

         Among Friends         Apparitions         Bloodhound Law, The         Emma's Child         Niedecker         Under Glass         Voice of Good Hope         Waiting for Tina Meyer

Among Friends

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Three old friends, Matt and brothers-in-law Will and Dan, gather as often as possible to play poker. Matt is a struggling Sears appliance salesman; Will, a public school teacher; and Dan, a real-estate developer and award-winning humanitarian. Dan is by far the most successful of the three and appears to be a model citizen. But when Will surreptitiously discovers the lionized Dan cheating at cards, he decides to explore exactly how deeply the rot goes. With masterful strokes, AMONG FRIENDS plumbs the nature of friendship, and the jealousy and resentment that sometimes lie just beneath the surface.

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Apparitions

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Bloodhound Law, The

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Elijah Parish Lovejoy escapes from St Louis is a minster, newspaper editor and abolitionist - the advocates are intent on getting rid of him. Lovejoy is murdered. Meanwhile in Chicago abolitionists John Jones and Charles Dyer are securing safe passage for escaping slaves

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CityLit Theatre, Chicago    Apr 2015

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Emma's Child

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Jean and Henry Farrell, after years of unsuccessfully attempting to have a baby of their own, decide to adopt. Emma, the birth mother, approves of the couple. Now a new waiting game begins: awaiting the birth of their child. To help Jean through, her best friend Franny comes for a visit, but brings more baggage than a normal traveler as she is separating from her husband, Sam. When the time arrives it is not a happy occasion however, as the baby, Robin, is born hydrocephalic, and will not live long. It was agreed that Jean and Henry would only accept a healthy infant, but Jean's investment in the waiting game was too intense and she falls for this child. the attention she pays to Robin not only threatens to tear her marriage apart-sending Henry away on a camping trip with the estranged Sam in a male bonding scene not to be missed-but causes trouble at the hospital as well: Jean has no parental rights, even though Emma has disappeared, and the administrators (despite what the nursing staff have to say) are war

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Niedecker

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about a fine but obscure American poet, Lorine Niedecker, and a young woman determined to aquatint the world with poems

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Apple Corps Theater, Ny    1989

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Women's Project

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Samuel French, London, 1990   -

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Under Glass

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Voice of Good Hope

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Elected to the Texas State Senate in 1966, Barbara Jordan became the first black senator since 1883. Six years later she became the first black woman from the Deep South elected to the United States House of Representatives. During the 1974 House Judiciary Committee's deliberations on the impeachment of Richard Nixon, Jordan's calm and reasonable defense of the Constitution gained her a reputation as a politician who could cross party lines to an American public in need of a steady voice. VOICE OF GOOD HOPE explores the life of this remarkable leader. From the lessons she learned as a child in a junkyard in Houston's impoverished Fifth Ward, to the political maneuverings that took place behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, Kristine Thatcher documents the spirit of the woman who rose, against all odds, to be one of this country's most powerful orators, one of its most astute politicians, one of its greatest teachers and, ultimately, one of its most private citizens.

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Waiting for Tina Meyer

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