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  • Old Soldiers
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    Old Soldiers

    Martin Jones

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    • Plays by Martin Jones

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    Play Description

    It is Armistice Day, 1962. Three veterans of the World Wars exchange army stories, lament the vagaries of age, and wait for the arrival of Harry, their old army buddy. OLD SOLDIERS is about friendship, loyalty, and the very personal realities of war.

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
    Short Drama (about 50 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: Short in Collection, The Plays Tags: War, 1960s
    • About the Author(s)
    • About the Book
    • Special Notes

    Author(s)

    • Martin Jones

      Martin Jones was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, but has lived primarily in places such as Memphis, St Louis, Chicago, Michigan, Florida, Virginia, Maine, Vermont, and Italy. In 1968 he received a B A in English and Theatre Arts from Hillsdale College in Michigan. He received an M A in Theatre from Eastern Michigan University, and a Ph.D. in Playwriting and Dramatic Literature from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. While at Carbondale he studied creative writing with the novelist John Gardner. For ten years Mr Jones taught in academic theater. He was Playwright-in-Residence at Northern Illinois University, and a drama professor at the University of Virginia and at Bowdoin College. In 1980 he left academic theater to work in Chicago as a playwright, actor, and director. He has worked as a performer at several regional theaters including the Victory Gardens Theater, the Wisdom Bridge Theater, the Theater at Monmouth, and the Portland Stage Company. In 1980 his play, OLD SOLDIERS, premiered at the Performance Community in Chicago. OLD SOLDIERS was published in Best Short Plays of 1983. His play DAUGHTERS premiered at the Guthrie Theater (Studio) in Minneapolis, and was later produced by Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater. In 1982 two of his plays were staged Off-Off Broadway — FLAMINGOS, at the Nameless Theatre, and SNOW LEOPARDS, at the 18th Street Playhouse. In October, 1983 his ZOOLOGY (a trilogy of plays) premiered in New York at the Stage Arts Theater Company. In 1985 Stage Arts also produced SNOW LEOPARDS, which was published later that year by Samuel French. WEST MEMPHIS MOJO was selected in 1986 as a winner in the F D G/C B S New Plays Program. In the spring of that year, Mr Jones co-authored a musical revue, FROM AWAY, which premiered at the Portland Stage Company. Mr Jones received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant in Playwriting in 1986, and throughout the eighties served as Playwright-in-Residence at the Portland Stage Company and the Mad Horse Theater Company, where four of his plays premiered: VANISHING POINTS, SQUATS, DARK RIVER, and YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE. In 1991, Jones co-authored the screenplay for the H B O/Lorimar film Prison Stories: Women on the Inside, which had its premiere at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, and was originally broadcast on H B O in January 1991. The film was nominated for a Cable Ace Award in the Best Dramatic Special category. Two of his other film scripts, Second Skin and Scarlet Moon are under option in Hollywood. Mr Jones currently lives in Springfield, Missouri, where he teaches creative writing at Southwest Missouri State University.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 9/1/2003
    Pages 200
    ISBN 9780881452198

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    Old Soldiers is produced
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