Everyday Heroes
Copyright 2001
3 men, 3 women

Kurt and Win have spent their young lives protecting their alcoholic mother. When an accident leads to a devastating fire, they are catapulted into a media frenzy and Win becomes a reluctant hero. But the brothers harbor a terrible secret. Will Win choose family loyalty or listen to his conscience? Using video images to examine the power of the media to distort the truth, Everyday Heroes raises questions about the meaning of heroism and explores issues surrounding the power of the media and the silencing of boys’ emotions in our society.

• Commissioned and premiered by The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration of Salt Lake City in conjunction with the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
• Developed at New York University Program in Educational Theatre’s New Plays for Young Audiences at The Provincetown Playhouse, 2002.
• Second production, The Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, MO, March 2004, directed by Jeff Church.

Forthcoming from Dramatic Publishing Company, 2006.
Contact: www.dramaticpublishing.com

From the Playwright:

The most compelling theatre raises questions rather than determines answers. Good theatre begins a dialogue that lingers long after the lights have dimmed on the action in the theatre space. If the questions are compelling enough, the debates that grow out of them can have a lasting effect, changing viewpoints and altering attitudes. No one knew this better than the Greeks, who developed a theatre that would instruct its people on how to conduct their lives through demonstrating the consequences of ill-chosen actions. more...