{"id":593,"date":"2013-07-27T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:17:50","slug":"frere-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Frere Lawrence — A Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Thomas F. Rogers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

(For production by Professional Groups, College\/University Groups, Community Groups)<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe late private life of T. E. Lawrence derives from Lawrence\u2019s posthumously published autobiography, The Mint<\/em>. A military hero of mythic proportions after WW I and dutifully subject to his society\u2019s stringent Victorian mores — so antithetical to his true nature — he later adopts the surname Shaw and chooses anonymity as a non-commissioned serviceman, thus totally expunging his former identity, a kind of suicide. The noble, neurotic Lawrence evokes our nearly insatiable and often frustrated yearning for intimacy, or as Freud titled it, the \u201cdiscontent\u201d of \u201ccivilization\u201d — the perhaps most fundamental socio-biological root of everyone\u2019s \u2018double bind,\u2019 for which talent and prominence are ultimately no sublimation and often the catalytic source of a deep seated loneliness. Both with a mix of present tense and flashback (derived from Lawrence\u2019s classic memoir, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom<\/em>, and through the eyes of so-called intimates, the story unfolds as a nightmare of images and aural effects that weave the fabric of the \u201cgenius\u201d known as \u201cLawrence of Arabia.\u201d Contains mild adult language and adult situations and themes.<\/p>\n

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