#SeasonOfEric

Plan-B Theatre Company, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has developed and produced unique and socially conscious theatre since 1991.

Plan-B champions the work of local playwrights like Eric Samuelsen.

Eric Samuelsen has been writing for Plan-B Theatre Company for a decade. When it came time to select the 2013/14 season, I did what I had been considering for quite some time—I invited Eric to be a resident playwright. And then I did something else I had been considering for quite some time—I asked if Plan-B could stage an entire season of his work. I wanted to celebrate his range as a playwright and let some of that been-under-a-bushel-far-too-long work see the light of day. From there, I asked him what mattered most to him of the dozen or so plays/ideas he had in various stages of completion. Together, we settled on the plays anthologized here.

Eric’s translation of Henrik Iben’s GHOSTS, from the Norwegian, filling in some of the gaps that have been created by a century of censorship; NOTHING PERSONAL, a riff on the relationship between Susan MacDougal and Kenneth Starr—a supposition rather than a literal history; RADIO HOUR EPISODE 8: FAIRYANA, a twisted holiday tale about the writers of a children’s television show, Eric’s first foray into radio drama; CLEARING BOMBS, an imagined economic debate between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek during their fabled night atop the King’s College Chapel in Cambridge during World War II; and 3, a collection of three short plays about Mormon women confronting their own culture.

Please enjoy the #SeasonOfEric.

Jerry Rapier
Artistic Director
Plan-B Theatre Company