Sanctuary, North

by R. W. Schneider

The youngest son of a very famous and very masculine writer grows up brilliant but bi-polar and compelled intermittently to put on women's clothes. He’s acquired a wife, five children and a medical degree, but for much of his life he’s pursued the provisional: projects invented during fits of manic energy only to be abandoned weeks or months later. Now he’s moved to a remote hamlet near the Canadian border...

The youngest son of a very famous and very masculine writer grows up brilliant but bi-polar and compelled intermittently to put on women's clothes. He’s acquired a wife, five children and a medical degree, but for much of his life he’s pursued the provisional: projects invented during fits of manic energy only to be abandoned weeks or months later. Now he’s moved to a remote hamlet near the Canadian border where he’s the only doctor for an hundred miles around. This is the place he’s chosen to make his stand: permanence, mental stability and masculinity -- or die.

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  • Unicorn Theatre: Sanctuary, North by R. W. Schneider
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    This play was a SEMIFINALIST for the 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support SANCTUARY, NORTH.

    This play was a SEMIFINALIST for the 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support SANCTUARY, NORTH.

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: Sanctuary, North by R. W. Schneider
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    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Robert Schneider and their play Sanctuary, North as a finalist for our 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 54 finalists out of more than 1,450 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers especially responded to the way tight craft allowed character and language to soar.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Robert Schneider and their play Sanctuary, North as a finalist for our 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 54 finalists out of more than 1,450 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers especially responded to the way tight craft allowed character and language to soar.

    ”

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