PLAYS

by

G.E. FARRELL

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A LONG TIME:

        A one act play about the visit by a former patient to a nurse who cared for him and for a famous author when they were wounded during World War II.  The former nurse is believed to have been the author's lover and the subject of a famous play written by him.

KORCZAK AND THE CHILDREN:

        The story of Dr. Janusz Korczak, pediatrician, author, radio personality, educator, war hero and the Director of the Jewish Orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, at the time of the Nazi occupation. (This play is also found at a German site dedicated to Dr. Korczak and " A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust " from the University of Southern Florida.)

SIR JOHN:

        Shakespeare's lovable rogue, Sir John Falstaff, is sought out by those, unaware of his banishment by the former Prince Hal, now King Henry V, who seek to use his relationship with the king for their own ends.

IPHIGENIA AT AULIS:

        Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and commander of the expedition to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, must appease the gods by sacrificing his beloved daughter, Iphigenia, or abandon the mission.

HELEN AND PARIS:

        The story of a love that destroyed a nation.