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Mike Sperber: Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam’s Park

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

  "Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam's Park" is a one-act play with four scenes.  It explores how a teenage, illiterate, cross-dressing, peasant girl, who did not know how to ride a horse, became commander-in-chief of the French army and turned the tide on the Hundred Years' War, the most brutal, barbaric and […]

Jonathan Bayliss Birthday Bash and Gilgamesh Play Reading

To celebrate the September 7, 1926 birth of Jonathan Bayliss, the playwright and novelist who died in 2009 here in the city of his fiction, Cape Ann residents will read portions of his play The Acts of Gilgamesh. The play is loosely based on the ancient Gilgamesh epic, takes place in Sumer (now southern Iraq), […]