The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. Alexander's primary claim is that human beings have an inherent need to experience meaning and value, a "Human Eros." Our various cultures are symbolic environments or "spiritual ecologies" within which the Human Eros seeks to thrive. This is how we inhabit the earth. Encircling and sustaining our cultural existence is nature, yet Western philosophy has not provided adequate conceptual models for thinking...
The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George San...
Second Edition, now with over 25 pages of new content. Blood is currency in Avenesse. Mortals faced extinction from the undead legions of the Deathlands. Vampires called nephilim offered a bargain: protection for blood. Facing slavery or annihilation, many mortals submitted. Now blood is currency, vampirism is political power, and undead unsanctioned by the Lunar Emperor must be destroyed. Ashia Boucher is the mortal daughter of the nephilim who watches over the Deathlands border. Her father shields Ashia from Avenesse's harsh realities and turns a blind eye to her pursuit of forbidden...
Second Edition, now with over 25 pages of new content. Blood is currency in Avenesse. Mortals faced extinction from the undead legions of the Deathlan...
Verone's life as a peasant was a lonely one until the strangers showed up at his door. They demanded he must come with them, to unravel a tangled Will and Testament that inexplicably bound him to the side of the stubborn, dark-headed young man, Antaries. Submitting to their demands gave him a quest, although he wasn't certain what the end result would be. As well as Antaries, the two hired guards, and the lawyer sent to oversee the complicated Will and Testament, he had to travel with another man that despised all peasants and was ready to sneer at him at every turn. On the road they were...
Verone's life as a peasant was a lonely one until the strangers showed up at his door. They demanded he must come with them, to unravel a tangled Will...
An Allegory In Four Acts A remote room in the throes of winter. The once great man lives alone now with his son. An old friend has come to visit. He has climbed up from the Village in order to offer the old man one last chance to escape the encroaching winter that is about to take him, stirring up memories of better times and the warmth of summer.
An Allegory In Four Acts A remote room in the throes of winter. The once great man lives alone now with his son. An old friend has come to visit. He h...
When the lover of a famous writer goes missing in a war ravaged country, he bribes his way into a jail to question her husband, a Missionary who is being tortured as a training exercise for a young trainee jailer. Alone in the cell the two start a dialogue about the nature of belief. Belief in God, love and politics.
When the lover of a famous writer goes missing in a war ravaged country, he bribes his way into a jail to question her husband, a Missionary who is be...
A comedy set over four acts, Writing William follows a young, aspiring playwright who, in order to get his work on stage, forges a Shakespeare play. Basing the play on the relationship between Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine during the murder of Thomas Becket, the playwright, Will, starts to see it mirror his own failing marriage as he struggles to find approval from an unforgiving spouse. Backed by a working class billionaire and supported by an array of ageing actors, the lead of which is mute, Will finds cathartic release in the writing of the play and it's impending production, but he...
A comedy set over four acts, Writing William follows a young, aspiring playwright who, in order to get his work on stage, forges a Shakespeare play. B...
Set around the startling true story of the assassination of Russian journalists Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya, Murder Me Gently blends real life events with Film Noir style storytelling to help highlight the human rights abuses and government oppression systemic in modern day Russia. When a Russian journalist is shot dead on her doorstep, a conman and a spy join forces to wreak revenge on those they consider responsible. But while all is fair in love and war, little is ever civil in the world of international espionage. Who is fooling who? Who is on whose side? And what wouldn't...
Set around the startling true story of the assassination of Russian journalists Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya, Murder Me Gently blends r...
Blending quotes and actual events with fictional dialogue, The Crossroads Country dramatizes the last thirty years of Afghan history up to and including the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent invasion. Merging international intrigue with the life of a single Afghan family the play utilizes humour and music as a backdrop to the international catalysts that conceived, created, and implemented the birth of global terror. Why did the Soviets invade Afghanistan? Why did the Americans fund the Jihad? Why did Osama bin Laden go to Afghanistan? Who funded the Taliban? And why was...
Blending quotes and actual events with fictional dialogue, The Crossroads Country dramatizes the last thirty years of Afghan history up to and includi...