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  • Home Front
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    Home Front

    Greg Owens
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    Play Description

    Darwin and Jo Smith, and their seventeen-year-old son, Ronnie, seem to be the typical Middle American conservative family. Darwin works as a systems analyst. Jo teaches community college. Ronnie is a high school baseball standout with big league aspirations. One night before dinner, they are paid a surprise visit from Commander Abraham Lincoln of Central Security, who claims to have information concerning their daughter, Lucy, an American soldier. Lincoln claims that Lucy was captured by the enemy in a foreign war and decapitated. But, thanks to the top-secret Operation Hydra, military doctors have been able to save her life by surgically reattaching her head. A combination of intense drama and surreal dark comedy, HOME FRONT explores the personal and social consequences of war.

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: The Plays Tags: Middle East, War, Family: Parents and Son
    • About the Author(s)
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    Author(s)

    • Greg Owens

      While earning his MFA in the early '90s at Indiana University, Greg wrote, directed, and produced several of his early scripts in an old bus garage with the Bloomington Playwrights Project. The rest of that decade and into the next, he was frequently on the road from Chicago to New York and Los Angeles and cities of all sizes across the country, sleeping on floors while putting up low-fi productions of his work, including U.S. BLUES, HOME FRONT, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD: A ROAD TRIP, and his critically acclaimed Chicago Fringe Festival production of THE QUEEN OF BAKERSFIELD & OTHER TALES OF DUST AND MOONLIGHT. The culmination of this road warrior phase came in 2001 when THE LIFE & TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD was named the Best Off-Loop Play of the Year by the Chicago Tribune. After moving to Montana at the turn of the decade, Greg wrote and directed for the similarly peripatetic artists of the Vigilante Theatre Company who, with four actors and a van, toured his work for hundreds of performances throughout culturally under-served areas of the Rocky Mountain West. Greg lives in Bozeman, Montana with his family.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 8/1/2006
    Pages 80
    ISBN 9780881453096

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