Semper Fi
Play Description
In October 1983 a truck filled with explosives blew up in a Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 242 soldiers. SEMPER FI explores the aftermath of that terrorist attack on the Marine Lt Colonel who was in charge.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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- About the Author(s)
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Press Quotes
“Every once in a while, a script comes along that’s so articulate, so well crafted, so free of cliches, you want to cry because they aren’t all like that. Michael Brady’s SEMPER FI is such a script …” —Mary Shen Barnidge, Chicago Reader
“… Michael Brady’s fine new play SEMPER FI … a drama dealing with a Marine Lt Colonel caught between a rock and a hard place — he was put in charge of the Marine unit in Beirut right before it was bombed by the terrorist truck in 1983. Ironically, he had pleaded for tighter security before this happened, but was refused. Now it appears he’ll be the scapegoat. Brady creates characters you’ll really care about …” —Mary Ann Nichols, WCRB-FM
“… blind faith is the subject of Michael Brady’s drama SEMPER FI, about the October 1983 bombing of the U S Embassy in Beirut … The play is the dramatic equivalent of the truck bomb that destroyed the embassy … The drama explodes with the emotional intensity of the event that took more than two hundred American lives …” —Alicia MacArthur, The Salem Evening News
Author(s)
Michael BradyMichael Brady's first play, SARA, was produced by Equity Library Theatre in 1980 at Lincoln Center. KORCZAK'S CHILDREN won the first Jesu Award in Playwriting and was produced by the Boston College Dramatics Society in 1982. TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY was developed through the literary department of The Ensemble Studio Theatre and M Square Entertainment and moved to Circle-in-the-Square. GILLIAN was awarded the Oppenheimer Award for best play of 1983, and was produced as a film in 1996 by Sony Pictures. Other stage works include: TWO BEARS BLINKING, produced by New Theatre of Miami, SEMPER FI, produced by The Gloucester Stage Company, and HARD TIME, Main Street Stage, North Adams, Massachusetts. TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY, KORCZAK'S CHILDREN, SEMPER FI, and TWO BEARS BLINKING are published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Michael's play TITLES was given a staged reading in July 2013 by the Berkshire Playwrights Lab in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. TITLES received another reading at Memberfest at The Ensemble Studio Theatre in November 2013. Both readings were directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Mr. Brady is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. In addition to his writing, Michael served for several years as the Program Officer for Artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, overseeing a grant giving program for literary, visual, and performance artists. He lives in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts with his wife, Patricia Jacobsen-Brady.
Special Notes
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Originally produced by Gloucester Stage Company, MA
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