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The construction of law and economy growth becomes a national goal to be able to get and continually increase its growth. The economy growth is meant as the success in fulfilling national purse like the adding of national revenue sources, the increase of citizens’ life standard, and the improvement of human capital quality. In order to reach that goal, it needs legal arrangement designed to be able to preserve the arrangements of economy, politics, and civil order. W. W. Rostow said: “Effectiveness and stability of the rules, institution and legal arrangement designed to preserve economic, political and civil order.” Human civilization growth has entered a digital era which is marked b...
True Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O’Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal. The Body of an American speaks to a moment in history when a single, stark photograph—of a US Army Ranger dragged from the wreckage of a Blackhawk helicopter through the streets of Mogadishu—altered the course of global events. In a story that ranges from Rwanda to Afghanistan to the Canadian Arctic, O’Brien dramatizes the ethical and psychological haunting of journalist Paul Watson. In The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage the playwright applies journalistic principles to investigating the source of his childhood unh...
In this new comedy of sex and politics, an anxious group of relations and dependants struggle for supremacy in a garden in the north of England. Toby, a sprightly 91-year-old, wants to keep young by buying and tending a part of the big garden next door. Gerald is trying to bed as many attractive women as possible in between buying up small shops in South East Asia to turn into supermarkets. Daniel struggles to get past chapter two of the book he's writing, whilst Roderick watches helplessly as his wife sets her sights on lecherous Gerald. The whole mixed bag seem to seek reassurance that they mean something - if only they could think what it is... Summer Again opened at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond in October 2004.
At the height of a freak storm a 911 caller reports a murder at the Ambrough Arms, NYC's new high-rise sliver. Chief of Detectives Darrel Randsome, aware that his estranged daughter resides in the Ambrough Arms, hurries to reach the scene. His progress is hampered by streets awash with filthy water, the result of a month-long sanitation workers' strike, that has plugged storm sewer drains with garbage. Randsome and four Crime Scene Unit detectives find more suspects than they bargained for in the high-rise sliver. The investigation gets complicated when Randsome discovers the Ambrough is owned by mobsters, and the DA is keeping twenty-four hour surveillance on the mob boss in 7A. Criminals abound as Randsome sifts though evidence. He struggles to do his job, but worries about his daughter's safety .
Screenplays from a critically acclaimed independent movie and other short films by a rising Asian American director.
Winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama As Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces the roots of his family's particular unhappiness to learn why his parents and siblings cut him off years ago. The more Dan learns about his family, the more mysterious the circumstances surrounding their estrangement become, until his world is shaken when rumours surface that his real father might be another member of the family. Is his pathological pursuit of the truth worth the risk? Or should he follow the advice of a psychic and make his life a never-finished work of art?
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