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EVERYTHING HAPPENS TODAY, opens in the purgatory of the main character's young life. He has been shipped from the Far East in a full body cast, a USAF "casualty" with no war to blame it on. The time in the end of the 1950's when American is in a pivotal time of its existence, and this "patient" is a victim of this turmoil and himself. Up until now, he has lived a well-masked life of fear, but has been "good, holy, and miserable as all hell," He is confused as to whether "everlasting life" is a reward, or a punishment. Away from the supports of home, he has been a "runner" who can't identify what's chasing him into bottles and beds and getting no satifaction from either. "If you run fast enough, you will meet yourself coming around a corner," his father warned him to no avail. Confined to a hospital in a military hospital, he has nowhere to run anymore, except inside and back out again. This morphine moon rides (every four hours) are a growth-cycle odessey of self discovery as memories become more medicinal than the medicines. We are at the end of his ninth month of hospitalization. there are basically five "dreams"" (1) "The Other Side of Everything," (2) "Flyboy in the Honey Hole," (3) "Casuality of the Peace," (4) Blackberries in a Taiwanese Mirror," and (5) "Holes, Door Knocks, and Magic Bricks." Then, there is the "Wake Up/Watcher at the Window."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Richard Fewell, Playwright and poet, wrote reviews of plays at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, and Yale Repertory for Inner City Newspapers. He is a graduate of the University of Bridgeport where he earned a BA (Magna Cum Laude) and MA (Summa Cum Laude), and was presented with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2002. He received three CT Commission on the Arts grants for writings, and was named a Distinguished Advocate for the Arts 2001. His plays: Skyy Piece, The Voice of Bones, Ghosts with Insomnia, and Secrets were developed at Prometheus' Fire Theatre (Ray Aranha, Founder/Director). Skyy Piece was read at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, NC, and Ghosts was produced at the Juneteenth Legacy Theatre Festival in Louisvillle, KY, and later produced by the University of Louisville, KY. Two of his plays were finalist at the Theodore Ward Prize at Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
Publications: The Black Scholar, Obsidian I & II, The African American Review, Callaloo, AFrican Voices, The Greenfield Review, OKIKE (Nigeria), The South Carolina Review, The Mississippi Review, Mwendo (Coe College, Iowa), The Small Pond, The Fairfield Review, and others.
He was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bridgeport, Sacred Heart University, and Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT. He is a Postal Service retiree, and a USAF Veteran.
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