Silverhill
Mar 10, 2010
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
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Isolated from the ostentatious wealth of the Gilded Age, the community of Silverhill thrives as a utopia founded on the principles of “Bible Communism” and free love. Their peaceful existence threatens to erupt, though, with a proposal that Silverhill abandon communism and become a corporation instead.
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About the Playwright...
Thomas Gibbons is playwright-in-residence at InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia, which has premiered seven of his plays: Pretending to America, 6221, Axis Sally, Black Russian, Bee-luther-hatchee, Permanent Collection, and A House With No Walls. Other plays include The Exhibition and Homer. His plays have also been seen at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, off-off-Broadway at Blue Heron Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Florida Stage, Unicorn Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Center Stage, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Kirk Douglas Theatre/Center Theater Group, Aurora Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, and many others. He is the recipient of seven playwriting fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding New Play, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the NAACP Theatre Award, the Roger L. Stevens Award from The Fund for New American Plays, and the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwriting Award.
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