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Restoring the Sun

Joe Sutton

Play Description

Cold fusion, long a dream of nuclear scientists, able to generate enough electricity to power entire cities from water, has at last been achieved. Or so the two scientists in RESTORING THE SUN claim. Loosely based on true events.

Production Info

Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes

Categories: The Plays Tags: 1980s

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About the Author(s)
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Special Notes

Press Quotes

“In RESTORING THE SUN two scientists claim they have achieved cold nuclear fusion, a process when commercially developed would turn water into energy so efficiently that a small lake could supply the energy need of the United States for a year. If that sounds too good to be true, perhaps it’s because the idea triggers a memory. You may recall hearing similar assertions sixteen years ago when two scientists at the University of Utah also said they’d found a way to fuse atoms to produce energy. Their work was eventually discredited when other scientists could not duplicate the results. The similarity between the plays and the historical incident is not coincidental. Playwright Joe Sutton has taken it as the model for RESTORING THE SUN. But his play is by no means a theatrical documentary. Sutton has created an engrossing, fast-moving drama … one of the reasons RESTORING THE SUN is so engaging is that all the characters are for the most part, well-meaning decent people who want to do the right thing.” —Douglas J Keating, Philly Inquirer

“Playwright Joe Sutton has shown us how sexy science can be … This story is full of complex relationships and motives.” —Kerry Clawson, Beacon Journal (Akron)

Author(s)

Joe Sutton
Joe Sutton's plays include VOIR DIRE (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the Best Play Award of the American Theatre Critics Association), AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, THE WINNER, THE THIRD ARMY, and RESTORING THE SUN. Joe co-wrote THE PREDATOR'S BALL with Karole Armitage, and saw the piece premiere in Florence, Italy before enjoying a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Other theatres producing Joe's plays include New York Theater Workshop, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, the Cleveland Play House, and the Old Globe in San Diego. After Hurricane Katrina, Joe initiated THE BREACH, a New Orleans-centered theatre piece co-written with Catherine Filloux and Tarell Alvin McCraney which premiered at New Orleans' Southern Rep before going on to play at Seattle Rep. More recently, Joe's play COMPLICIT opened at London's Old Vic with Artistic Director Kevin Spacey directing. Joe has also recently been developing a pilot of USA television called Scales of Justice, about an overweight detective in post-Katrina New Orleans. Joe is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them fellowships from NYFA, the NEA, and NJ Arts. When not in rehearsal, Joe teaches playwriting at Dartmouth College. There he lives with his wife Anne and their son Nicholas.

Book Information

Publisher	BPPI
Publication Date	6/1/2006
Pages	80
ISBN	9780881452969

Special Notes

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Originally produced by The Cleveland Playhouse

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Restoring the Sun is produced
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com