Eric Samuelsen
Each volume below may be ordered from it’s own page. The entire series may be ordered from a PayPal link at the bottom of this page.
VOLUME ONE — SIX PLAYS OF CHALLENGED FAITH (279 pages, $17.95 — Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Thomas F. Rogers
- Letter From A Prophet (from Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail) (co-authored with Charles Metten) Produced at BYU, Fall 1978.
- Prayers From Winter Quarters (A Short Play)
- Accommodations Produced at BYU in 1993, Published in Sunstone Magazine in 1994, Association for Mormon Letters Best Drama Award 1994
- The Seating of Senator Smoot – Premiered at BYU 1996, Videotaped and broadcast on KBYU TV
- Without Romance – Premiered at BYU 1997;
- Gadianton Premiered at BYU 1997; Published in Sunstone Magazine; Winner: Association for Mormon Letters Best Drama Award, 1997; Anthologized in Saints On Stage by Mahonri Stewart, Zarahemla Press, 2013 Also had a production at Plan-B Theatre Company, 2012
VOLUME TWO — FIVE MORE PLAYS OF CHALLENGED FAITH (236 pages, $17.95 — Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Eric Eliason
- The Way We’re Wired – Premiered at BYU 1999; Winner: Association for Mormon Letters Best Drama Award, 1999; Adapted into a Novel, “Singled Out” published by Cornerstone in 2000.
- Family – Produced at BYU, 2005; Winner: AML Drama Award, 2005; Published in Sunstone Magazine, 2005;
- The Plan – Premiered at The Covey Center for the Arts, Provo, Utah 2009; Published in Sunstone Magazine, 2009
- Mess of Pottage — Marriage and Other Eternal Constructs — Staged reading at the Orem Public Library in 2013
- Impressions On Plates of Gold — a Book of Mormon Musical Experience — 1997, 2020
VOLUME THREE – SIX PLAYS FROM THE PLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY YEARS ($17.95 Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Jerry Rapier, Artistic Director, Plan-B Theatre Company
- Amerigo (Christopher Columbus) Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company, SLC, 2010; published in “More Plays from Behind the Zion Curtain.”
- Miasma – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2006; published in “Plays from Behind the Zion Curtain.”
- Borderlands – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company, 2011; Published in Sunstone Magazine, 2009; Published in 2012 in “Even More Plays from Behind the Zion Curtain”
- A Doll House (translated and adapted from the Ibsen original) Staged reading by Plan-B Theatre Company
- Nothing Personal – Produced by Plan-B Theatre Company 2013
- Fairyana (Plan-B Theatre’s Radio Hour Episode 8) Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company 2013
- (BONUS: ’Spinning’ SCENE and ‘Democracy‘ MONOLOGUE from the multi-author play (IN)DIVISIBLE.)
- NOTE: many of the plays in volumes 7 and 8 are from Plan-B as well
VOLUME FOUR – SIX MORE PLAYS FROM THE PLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY YEARS ($17.95 Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Melissa Leilani Larson
- Ghosts (translated and adapted from the Ibsen original) Staged Reading by Plan-B Theatre Company
- 3 (Three short plays about Mormon women confronting their own culture: Bar and Kell, Community Standard, and Duets) – Premiered at the Little Brown Theatre in Springville, Utah, 2001 under the title “Three Women”; produced as “3” at Plan-B Theatre Company, 2014
- Clearing Bombs – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company, 2014; Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
- The Kreutzer Sonata – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company, 2015
- The Ice Front – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company, 2017
- Mount Vernon — George Washington as you never knew him, through a descendant of one of his slaves. (Future production at Plan-B Theatre Company)
- NOTE: many of the plays in volumes 7 & 8 are from Plan-B as well
VOLUME FIVE – SIX PLAYS OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE Part 1 ($17.95 Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Megan Sanborn Jones
- Peculiarities (Six short interwoven parable-plays on young adulthood and sexuality as they intersect Faith) Premiered at Springville Playhouse, 2005, Produced for the stage and filmed by CUE MEDIA.
- Do Good —
- Little Eyolf (translated and adapted from the Ibsen original) Premiered at BYU
- Magnificence (adapted from John Skelton’s Medieval play) Premiered at BYU, 2002
- Rain-In-The-Face — Annie Oakley is introduced, by Colonel Buffalo Bill, to the Chief who killed Custer
- Winding Sheet – Staged reading at Salt Lake Acting Company 1998
VOLUME SIX – SEVEN MORE PLAYS OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE Part 2 ($17.95 Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Mahonri Stewart
- Playing The Game – Produced at BYU in 1979 (Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival regional production)
- Escape from Madame Leonora’s — unproduced
- A Love Affair With Electrons (Philo T. Farnsworth and the invention of Television) Premiered at BYU in
- What Really Happened – Produced at BYU
- He and She Fighting: A Love Story – Premiered by The New Play Project, Provo, Utah 2010.
- At Canossa – The Pope, The Emperor and the Marchioness — unproduced
VOLUME SEVEN — 16 TEN-MINUTE PLAYS AND 6 OTHER SHORT PLAYS ($17.95 Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Matthew Ivan Bennett
- Behind the Blue Door 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2007
- Blind Date — 10 minute play about a really different blind date – Covey Center for The Arts, Provo, Utah, 2012
- Blood Pudding 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2006
- Burning Desire 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2008
- The Butcher, The Beggar and the Bedtime-Buddy 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2005 (Later became the full length, “Miasma” [see Volume 3])
- Cannibal Bondage Fiasco — 10 minute play, (unproduced)
- Cassandra – Produced at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, 2018
- Control-Alt-Delete— 10 minute play – Premiered at Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2011 in Salt Lake City.
- CoughLaugh (experimental) Premiered by BYU in 1998 and again in 2010
- Dreamers— 10 minute play Premiered at The Rose Exposed, Salt Lake City, 2018
- Fingerprint Smile— 10 minute play – Premiered as a Plan-B GHOSTSTheatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory STUDENT SLAM 2012, Salt Lake City.
- FIVE— 10 minute play – Premiered as a Plan-B Theatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory co-production at the STUDENT SLAM 2011, Salt Lake City
- Foursquare— 10 minute play – Plan-B Theatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory Student SLAM, Salt Lake City
- Gaming The DMV— 10 minute play – Premiered at Plan-B Theatre’s ninth annual SLAM 2012.
- Perfect Circle 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2009
- Spoiled Cheese— 10 minute play Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2005
- Kiss (stand alone version) (originally from the film version of PECULIARITIES)
- NCMO (Non-committal making out) (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
- Pizza and a Movie (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
- Tahoe (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
- Temps (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
- Last Chance — 20 minutes of Seniors and relationships
VOLUME EIGHT — THIRTEEN PLAYS FOR TEEN/YOUNG ADULT PERFORMERS ($19.95 Our Price: $15.95)
INTRODUCTION by Colleen Lewis
- Bumps — sci-fi fantasy on the school grounds
- Intersection – Premiered by the Theatre Arts Conservatory at Plan-B Theatre Company, 2009
- Inversion – Premiered by the Theatre Arts Conservatory at Plan-B Theatre Company, 2008
- The Odyssey — an adaptation of Homer’s classic. Premiered at BYU.
- Slaying The Greeble — Theatre Arts Conservatory with Plan-B Theatre Company
- Fingerprint Smile— 10 minute play – Premiered as a Plan-B Theatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory STUDENT SLAM 2012, Salt Lake City.
- FIVE — 10 minute play – Premiered as a Plan-B Theatre/Theatre Arts Conservatory co-production at the STUDENT SLAM 2011, Salt Lake City
- Foursquare— 10 minute play (unproduced)
- Perfect Circle 10 minute play – Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company’s SLAM 2009
- NCMO (Non-committal making out) (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
- Pizza and a Movie (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
- Tahoe (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
- Temps (stand alone version) (originally from the play PECULIARITIES)
COMPLETE SET OF ALL EIGHT SAMUELSEN BOOKS: $100.00 ($12.50 each)
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