Echoes of Another Man
Play Description
The brain of a famous alcoholic/diabetic artist with a deteriorating body is transplanted into the vegetative body of a pro-golfer. When the Patient wakens from his surgery, he must not only figure out how to eat, talk, walk, and paint again, but he must navigate through a deluge of memories that no longer feel like they happened to him.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, multiethnic cast)Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“A fantastic dramatic vehicle — one that poses complex questions about the relationship between mind and body, the nature of love and death, the source of artistic talent, the roots of identity, and some of the thornier ethical and social issues raised by increasingly radical medical ‘breakthroughs.’ This is a play that is smart and probing and revelatory.” —Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
“A fascinating piece of Chicago writing.” —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“ECHOES OF ANOTHER MAN is one of those plays with a premise that excites and engages our imagination completely.” —Rick Reed, Windy City Times
Author(s)
Mia McCulloughMia McCullough's plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, and Stage Left Theatre in Chicago, as well as around the country at the Old Globe and Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company in San Diego, InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia, Actor's Express in Atlanta, and the Victory Theater Center in Los Angeles, among others. Her work has been developed through Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival, the PlayPenn conference, Steppenwolf Theatre Company's First Look Repertory, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Stage Left Theatre's LeapFest and Chicago Dramatists. Her play SINCE AFRICA received its New York premiere at Red Fern Theatre Company in February 2014. Her play IMPENETRABLE, which recently opened at Clockwise Theatre in Waukegan, was a finalist for the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA)'s 2013 Steinberg Award. She has won the ATCA Osborn Award, the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition, a Cincinnati Entertainment Award, and a Jeff Award for New Work (all for CHAGRIN FALLS). Ms. McCullough has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (SINCE AFRICA), the Jane Chambers Award (IMPENETRABLE), as well as a nominee for a Jeff Award for Best New Play multiple times. Several of her plays have been published by Broadway Play Publishing. She is adjunct faculty at Northwestern University, where she teaches playwriting and screenwriting. She is also the author of several screenplays, a resident playwright with Chicago Dramatists, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She lives just outside Chicago with her husband and child.
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
Originally produced by Actor's Express, Atlanta
and then by Stage Left Theater, Chicago
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com
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