Plays

Stephen Sossaman

The Discourse of Folly

A full length play imagining the confrontations in 1506 among Michelangelo, Erasmus,

Machiavelli, and Pope Julius II. Developed at the Earl Hamner Theater Conference in

2007 and given a staged reading at LiveArts in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Hotel Versailles

This full-length play creates a hellish Parisian hotel scullery in 1919, where the young

George Orwell, Ho Chi Minh, and Langston Hughes clash with each other and with Pierre, a shell shocked French WWI veteran. Hotel Versailles was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and given a staged reading at Charlottesville, Virginia’s, LiveArts.

Dostoevsky and Rykova

Premiered by Play On Theater in Charlottesville in 2007, this one-act involves the

desperate Russian novelist, his amanuensis, and a landlady worthy of the axe.

Saved!

Produced as part of Mill Mountain Theater’s 2007 Overnight Sensations.

Preludes, Improvisations, Inventions

A full length play about betrayal, careerism and art. Given readings at LiveArts in Charlottesville, and in Massachusetts.

Alice and Charlie Forget About Sally and Eddie

A finalist in the Dubuque Fine Arts Players competition, and a semi-finalist with Drury College and the Attic Theatre Centre. Staged readings in Virginia and Massachusetts.

Pants

What the family thinks about, but doesn’t talk about.

And others