I will never forget the moment when I knew he had won. The look on my wife’s face. 8 November 2016. I had driven up to Salt Lake to see a play about Joe Hill, the labor organizer, and his preposterously biased trial and conviction (and eventual execution) in a Utah court. My wife said …
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Eric Samuelsen Plays
Accommodations Borderlands Family Gadianton (For some reason, there’s an article appended to the beginning of this document. The article is pretty interesting, but Eric’s play starts a few pages down.) Peculiarities: NCMO Peculiarities: Pizza and a Movie Peculiarities: Temps Peculiarities: Tahoe Film Version of Peculiarities The Plan “3” can be read in this …
The Roots of My Faith–Part II
By Eric Samuelsen Continued from Part I My high school experiences taught me two lessons that I’ve clung to my whole life. First, the Book of Mormon invites the Spirit. That is to say, reading it engenders feelings that seem to me to have been externally generated. Though I still had doubts and questions, I …
The Roots of My Faith–Part I
By Eric Samuelsen Or right-click here to download the audio file: The Roots of My Faith I grew up Bloomington, Indiana, a college town some fifty miles south of Indianapolis. Bloomington was torn between town and gown, between blue-collar locals and academics. From my house, we could hear stock car racing …
Borderlands: A Play–Part II
Continued from Part I SCENE SEVEN (BRIAN and PHYLLIS sit in the office, waiting.) PHYLLIS: I don’t know why we’re doing this. We don’t need you. BRIAN: Whatever. PHYLLIS: I run this car lot. I decide who works here and who doesn’t. BRIAN: I was told to wait here for Dave. Is that …
Borderlands: A Play–Part 1
Introduction Borderlands marks a place of intersection, a liminal space where roads end but new paths begin, where no horizons reveal themselves but also where collisions do us harm. I’m a believing, practicing Mormon, and Mormonism is at its most essential a religion that preaches literally endless human possibilities, eternal progression, and growth. But we …