EIGHT PLAYS FROM EIGHT AUTHORS
PREMIERED BY
PLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
THE ALIENATION EFFEKT BY TOBIN ARKINSON
AMERIKA BY ADEN ROSS
EXPOSED BY MARY DICKSON
FACING EAST BY CAROL LYNN PEARSON
THE END OF THE HORIZON BY DEBORA THREEDY
MIASMA BY ERIC SAMUELSEN
RADIO POE ADAPTED FOR RADIO DRAMA BY CHERYL ANN CLUFF

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LAVENDER & EXILE WRITTEN FOR RADIO DRAMA BY MATTHEW IVAN BENNETT

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DOUG FABRIZIO, HOST AND PRODUCER OF RADIO WEST

In the spring of 1969, American's were preparing to land men on the moon, listening to the Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour, and struggling to understand the war in Vietnam. It was a wild and raucous time to be a teenager in America. At Salt Lake City's all-boys Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Catholic priests wanted to prepare its graduating class for the demands of the adult world.

The priests decided to organize a weekend retreat for seniors and called it, The Lost Weekend . Taking their idea from the 1945 Hollywood movie, The Lost Weekend , starring Ray Milland, the priests wanted to teach the almost-minted grads about the serious business of drinking alcohol in the real world. In the film, Ray Milland's character, played an out-of-control alcoholic who went on a binge and forgot what happened to him.

On a warm Friday evening, the entire graduating class surrendered their car keys and promised not to leave the school campus until Sunday morning. Let the lost weekend of debauchery begin. Once the doors were locked, priests rolled-out lunchroom carts stacked high with cases of Coors beer and enough hard alcohol to keep everyone comatose for a week. The boys went wild, drinking and smoking and talking about girls and how lucky they were to have such cool priests.

The truth is, the retreat had little or nothing to do with teaching young boys about holding their liquor, it was about victimization, hypocrisy and sex.

Join up with Connor, a sharp-tongued, good-natured seventeen-year-old star football player who tells it all - with style. Relive the fun as Connor and friends get down and party-hardy. Listen to the music that entranced and changed one and all. But, be prepared for the shock and disbelief, the grotesque images, and the unfolding nightmare. Be there at Connor's side for a weekend no one will ever forget.

Author, Paul McGill, was there for it all. For more than 30 years, he held the secret inside until it poured out one sentence at a time. Finding the Lost Weekend , is inspired by true events. McGill has changed the names and some circumstances to protect the innocent and shield himself from a sometime punitive and unrepentant Catholic Church.

This is a compelling and harrowing book, one you won't be able to put down. It is also a sad commentary about church, betrayal, misplaced trust and what can go terribly wrong.

Changing Faces is chick lit at its best: spunky, snarky, irreverent and gritty; filled with feminine hopes, dreams, fairy tales and, oh yes, plenty of sex. Author, Tonya Nemanic, is gorgeous and a successful salon owner and she digs and dishes about sex, men, relationships, money and about failing in love - time and again.

Nemanic opens with her current relationship with Arthur, a karaoki-singing, strip-club regular, whose television-host good looks has Nemanic swooning. The question is, will he turn out to be prince charming or just another loser? She wonders, why haven’t any of my relationships worked?.

Along the way Nemanic gets bedded down and dumped by a series of lover-losers who can’t wait to spend her money and romp in the sack. She knows what is going on but can’t extricate herself. She is desperate to make love work. Through her ill-fated relationships, Changing Faces, explores the knotty questions of contemporary mating rituals and romantic love. Will this (current) relationship be the one I have been waiting for? Will this man be my soul mate? And, why do I need a man anyway?

Without much effort Nemanic gores many of Utah’s sacred cows: the missionaries, submissive Mormon women and the pious, self righteous elders. It’s not as if she set out to do it, but you can’t not have a reaction to those who would save your soul, so they might have it for themselves. She also goes after her well-heeled clientele, desperately unhappy stay at home mothers, lazy boy-men and everyone else who crosses her path.

This is a story of a thoroughly modern girl who works hard and finds success but secretly longs for the stability and simplicity of her childhood home, where dad went off to work and mom stayed at home with the kids.

No One Makes It Alone, by author Andrew Valdez, is the true story of how a poor, fatherless, westside Latino paperboy - destined to be a respected judge - is plucked off a cold, wintery Salt Lake City street corner by an Anglo business owner who mentors and fathers him. Jack Keller, affectionately known as “Jack Mormon,” shows streetwise Andy Valdez how to face adversity and take responsibility. Most importantly, Jack sets Andy on the right path to grow into manhood.

No One Makes It Alone starts in the present when Judge Andrew Valdez discovers his mentor, Jack, begging at a local grocery store. Over the years they lost track and now Jack is penniless and suffering the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The once strong and able-bodied World War II veteran is desperate and alone.

This chance meeting sets in motion reflections and memories of those days long ago when Andy and Jack spent their time under the cooling canopy of century-old trees at the tennis courts in Liberty Park. It was Jack’s guidance and the game of tennis that taught Andy about honesty, competition, honor and fair play. Tennis opened the door to a new world of possibilities - and Andy walked through.

No One Makes It Alone is an important book. It is a poignant story of how a boy grows into manhood - and great accomplishment - with the help and love of an older, unrelated man. But it is also a reminder to each of us of where we came from and who helped us along the way. No matter who we are, what color our skin, what side of the tracks we call home or what our country of origin is, there are far more similarities than differences between us. With the debate about immigration continuing, the lessons and values author Andrew Valdez serves up through the wisdom of his own experiences are welcome and needed.

Author, Mary Shurtleff, knew early she had special gifts. At first relegated to being just an imaginative child, she inherited abilities to see, understand and find her place in the Chi, the circulating life force whose existence is at the heart of ancient Chinese philosophy.

Based on these philosophies, the Chinese word FengShui means ‘water.’ These ephemeral elements became part of a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy or Chi. means ‘wind’ and

Alchemy of Quantum Mind Feng Shui brings the interdisciplinary study of Hypnotherapy and Feng Shui, together to offer readers, from novices to seasoned practitioners, a quantum or proportional increase of Chi - creating favorable effects on personal well-being through home interior design and building siting.