DAVID RUSH

​Writer

NUREYEV'S EYES


“The eyes are the hard part."


Jamie Wyeth paints Rudolf Nureyev


and both are changed.


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GERMINOUS SEEDS


“It’s the solution, not the solving.”

Three interwoven threads about

the mystery of comrades.

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LEANDER STILLWELL


“Bring me back something from the war.”

A boy’s journey into the heart

of darkness in the civil war.

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BILLY BUDD 


"The angel of God must hang"

An adaptation from Melville




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ESTELLE SINGERMAN


“What happens when you die, you know?”

A race against time on

 magical Chicago night.

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ANTIGONE


“God's law is higher.”


A contemporary acting version


of Sophocles

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MILLER AND THE JABBERWOCK


“The Jabberwock always wins”

A professor faces the last

battle of his life.


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CUTTINGS


“We’re just getting started, lad.”

A burnt-out shrink/sex-offender

on the run with a teen-aged boy.


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THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
OF JOSHUA HARKER 


"We're all connected by the war."


Two Civil War soldiers about to be executedexchange fables.

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POLICE DEAF NEAR FAR


“Maybe he did it on purpose.”

Misunderstanding the deaf man’s

signing, the cop shoots him.

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TYING THE KNOT


“All because we couldn’t get married.”

3 couples meet tragedy under the

ban against same-sex marriage.

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WOMEN OF CHOICE


“Come, my little one; you must choose.”

Monologues by women who have

faced important crossroads.

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