It is Black History Month 1995 and Legacy Laban, the director of the Black Informant Program (BIP) is reviewing options for dealing with the two million black men scheduled to attend the Million Man March. Eighteen years later, Bernard C. Noah, owner of a small black newspaper in Chicago and history professor at Malcolm X College, is discussing "African American Conflict" research papers with his students. After class Noah rushes to the hospital. Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Mark Ivan i...

Set in 2035, "Nexus Ascendant" explores humanity's quantum technological leap, sparked by a pivotal experiment at CERN. Zeke Destin faces an ethical quandary over a wormhole experiment, igniting discussions on science's moral boundaries. Alongside a Navy SEAL named Angus MacGee and ONE, an advanced AI, Zeke navigates human-AI partnerships while tackling themes of friendship and responsibility. Catering to sci-fi and quantum physics enthusiasts, the novel prompts reflection on AI's role in ...

The full scripts of award-winning Downton Abbey , Season Two, including previously unseen commentary from Julian FellowesOpening in 1916, as the First World War rages across Europe, Season Two is the next dramatic installment of the much-loved, award-winning drama. The Crawley family and their servants play their parts on the front line and back at home as their lives are intensified by the strains of war.The shoo...

Bill Johnson reviews popular movies like Groundhog Day, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard to set out principles of storytelling.Many writers new to screenwriting are doing what they think should be done. These reviews take new writers into the foundation of these films, exploring in a step by step fashion how each film told its story in a way that found and satisfied a large audience.Bill Johnson is author of A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling, a popular writing wo...

JOY is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girlwho becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process,recovers her childhood magic and finds her place in the world.Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in thisintense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise.In this world of unforgiving commerce, allies become adversaries, adversarie...

A Screenplay / Director's script about two young women in love.

Save Me is an intense dramatic thriller. It is filled with fear, thrills, hope, despair and love. Save me tells a story about how everyone in the world has a struggle and that we are suffering from similar problems. This story will leave you with a deep message about life by the end of the play.

adventure with detective ken phictos into a dark world of characters who think they have some relation to alice in wonderland but who exist on the borders between insanity and evil. beautiful moustachioed miranda is a poetry fanatic and with her lover humpty trades in illegal organs and opium. can ken phictos hold back the tide of evil?

In this thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, Andrew Frost contextualises the major thematic concerns of Rowan Woods' film The Boys into the broader context of social anxieties about violence, crime and morality. He chronicles his own personal journey with the film and its makers from art school to the underground Super 8 filmmaking scene of Sydney in the mid-1980s, and the early short films of Rowan Woods. Frost discovers new aspects of The Boys even today and wonders ...

Six Short Plays(to be performed individually, in pairs, or as a complete eveningtitled Dancing On Quicksand)

Before there was Empire... Before there was Power... There was THE SUN OF SILK by Brian Pewor.Read about the family that inspired it all.THE SUN OF SILK

The circus is failing. Ticket sales have been declining for years. Morale among the performers is low and many fear that they will soon be out of a job.One performer, Tubby the Fat Clown, has little money, but a big appetite. He has begun to show up at children’s birthday parties to steal the cake. Children, finding this funny, have come to adore the fat clown. Parents, though they disapprove, have turned a blind-eye to Tubby’s antics.To repay Tubby for appearing at her bir...