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These 15 short contemporary plays for competition have surprise endings and are designed to spike the audience's interest. Billy Banes, an escaped bank-robber and murderer, stops at Silas Hogue's farm, not for food and a fresh horse, but to stretch the old sod-buster's neck with a rope. The famous child from Lourdes who was granted the power to perform miracles faces a moral dilemma when his miracles bring devastating consequences. Everyone in Mayville has a guilty secret about who killed Brice Borman, the town's most hated man. Heavy with despair, a man walks solemnly onto a bridge and stares over the railing at the murky water far below him. Paul, a teenager, discovers his father's location and arranges a reunion with Dad to satisfy years of festering anger with a gun. In their twilight years, Helene, an international singing star, and Frank, a successful businessman, meet aboard a luxury cruise shop, where they dance away thoughts of personal loss to find a second chance at love. An experienced actor tries out for a part in Shakespeare's King Lear in this encounter with mistaken identities and a unique interpretation of what real talent is all about. And more . . .

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Charles Henry Coburn hails from Vermont where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the University of Vermont and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Norwich University. His adult years have included teaching high school and college English at a variety of New England schools. He is a published playwright, poet, and essayist, and has served as a drama coach and a director of the Vermont Playwrights Circle, an organization dedicated to the development of drama.

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