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The Life and Death of Almost Everybody

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 12m

David Campton

As he tidies up an empty stage, the Sweeper is tempted to experiment with the magic power of the theatre--to create life through the exercise of imagination. After a few preliminary tries in summoning up a rabbit and an elephant, the Sweeper plunges ahead and creates a Young Man and a Young Woman.

The Life and Death of Almost Everybody

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    5w, 12m

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As he tidies up an empty stage, the Sweeper is tempted to experiment with the magic power of the theatre--to create life through the exercise of imagination. After a few preliminary tries in summoning up a rabbit and an elephant, the Sweeper plunges ahead and creates a Young Man and a Young Woman. Then, as ever more characters are called for, events begin to go beyond his bewildered control. The most potent forces in human life and society--love, hate, politics, religion--emerge and dominate, and with them the bickering, dissension and decadence which they can engender.
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  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    An empty stage

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David Campton

David Campton
David Campton's agent has passed in recent years. Concord now act as the agent. We can license his works freely to the amateur market, provided there is not professional interest. No changes permitted. Cuts or the like to check with Steven Greenhalgh (UK)
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