Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama
$28.95
"Saints on Stage" is the most comprehensive and important work on Mormon drama ever published. This volume anthologizes some of Mormonism's best plays from the last several decades, many of them published here for the first time. Several of these plays have won honors from institutions as varied as the Kennedy Center and the Association for Mormon Letters.
This volume includes historical backgrounds and playwright biographies, as well as an introduction that provides an extensive overview of Mormon drama. The following plays are included:
"Fires of the Mind," Robert Elliott
"Huebener," Thomas F. Rogers
"Burdens of Earth," Susan Elizabeth Howe
"J. Golden," James Arrington
"Matters of the Heart," Thom Duncan
"Gadianton," Eric Samuelsen
"Hancock County," Tim Slover
"Stones," J. Scott Bronson
"Farewell to Eden," Mahonri Stewart
"Martyrs' Crossing," Melissa Leilani Larson
"I Am Jane," Margaret Blair Young
This volume includes historical backgrounds and playwright biographies, as well as an introduction that provides an extensive overview of Mormon drama. The following plays are included:
"Fires of the Mind," Robert Elliott
"Huebener," Thomas F. Rogers
"Burdens of Earth," Susan Elizabeth Howe
"J. Golden," James Arrington
"Matters of the Heart," Thom Duncan
"Gadianton," Eric Samuelsen
"Hancock County," Tim Slover
"Stones," J. Scott Bronson
"Farewell to Eden," Mahonri Stewart
"Martyrs' Crossing," Melissa Leilani Larson
"I Am Jane," Margaret Blair Young
Evening Eucalyptus and Other Enchanted Plays by Mahonri Stewart
$18.95
Mystical Plays of Magic, Meaning, and Romance
A self-exiled man finds himself in a mythical Australia. A Victorian woman has closeted herself in her home to hide herself from an ancient secret. A woman stumbles into a shop whose glassware contains more than she bargained for. The Greek Eurydice wakes up on a boat with a mysterious man. The Lady of Shallot is discovered in an ancient castle by a ragtag group of adventurers. A trio of post-apocalyptic survivors faces a changed world that contains sphinxes, fairies, griffins, goddesses, and the fearsome Emperor Wolf.
In these plays, national-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart explores his enchanted side.
"[Evening Eucalyptus] does a good job of weaving together several storylines with a sense of magic . . . the last lines of the play linger in the mind long after curtain call . . . an exciting climax and compelling resolution. There is a lot to recommend Evening Eucalyptus for a night of thought-provoking entertainment."
—Kristin Perkins, Front Row Reviewers
"[A] shining achievement . . . Retellings that bring to light new ideas in ancient stories . . . are some of my favorite things in the world, and Stewart pulls this off beautifully!"
—Bianca Dillard, Utah Theatre Bloggers Association
"Mahonri Stewart is a masterful writer . . . and it is always a pleasure to grapple intellectually with what his clever mind produces time after time."
—Marilyn Brown, Dawning of a Brighter Day
A self-exiled man finds himself in a mythical Australia. A Victorian woman has closeted herself in her home to hide herself from an ancient secret. A woman stumbles into a shop whose glassware contains more than she bargained for. The Greek Eurydice wakes up on a boat with a mysterious man. The Lady of Shallot is discovered in an ancient castle by a ragtag group of adventurers. A trio of post-apocalyptic survivors faces a changed world that contains sphinxes, fairies, griffins, goddesses, and the fearsome Emperor Wolf.
In these plays, national-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart explores his enchanted side.
"[Evening Eucalyptus] does a good job of weaving together several storylines with a sense of magic . . . the last lines of the play linger in the mind long after curtain call . . . an exciting climax and compelling resolution. There is a lot to recommend Evening Eucalyptus for a night of thought-provoking entertainment."
—Kristin Perkins, Front Row Reviewers
"[A] shining achievement . . . Retellings that bring to light new ideas in ancient stories . . . are some of my favorite things in the world, and Stewart pulls this off beautifully!"
—Bianca Dillard, Utah Theatre Bloggers Association
"Mahonri Stewart is a masterful writer . . . and it is always a pleasure to grapple intellectually with what his clever mind produces time after time."
—Marilyn Brown, Dawning of a Brighter Day
The Fading Flower and Swallow the Sun: Two Plays by Mahonri Stewart
$15.95
Two plays by award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart.
"The Fading Flower": Emma Smith had brought up her children to honor the memory of their father, Joseph Smith, the martyred Mormon Prophet. Yet when her son, David Hyrum Smith, starts investigating the mysteries behind his father's involvement in polygamy and goes west to mingle with the "Brighamite" faction of Mormonism, Emma must confront a chapter in her life that she would have preferred to have left closed.
"Swallow the Sun": Before he became one of the world's greatest defenders of Christianity and the beloved author of "The Chronicles of Narnia," C.S. "Jack" Lewis was a staunch atheist. This is the stirring and powerful story of his early life as he journeyed from entrenched skeptic to one of modern Christianity's most eloquent and courageous advocates.
"The Fading Flower": Emma Smith had brought up her children to honor the memory of their father, Joseph Smith, the martyred Mormon Prophet. Yet when her son, David Hyrum Smith, starts investigating the mysteries behind his father's involvement in polygamy and goes west to mingle with the "Brighamite" faction of Mormonism, Emma must confront a chapter in her life that she would have preferred to have left closed.
"Swallow the Sun": Before he became one of the world's greatest defenders of Christianity and the beloved author of "The Chronicles of Narnia," C.S. "Jack" Lewis was a staunch atheist. This is the stirring and powerful story of his early life as he journeyed from entrenched skeptic to one of modern Christianity's most eloquent and courageous advocates.
A Roof Overhead and Other Plays by Mahonri Stewart
$17.95
Five Plays About the Search for Spirituality
National-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart continues to explore the contours of spirituality in an increasingly complicated world. This volume includes:
• A Roof Overhead—The Fielding family's Mormon values conflict with their tenant's atheistic beliefs. Can mutual tolerance be found, or will tragedy ruin their chances for finding common ground?
• Friends of God—This play dramatizes the history of Joseph Smith's martyrdom and the controversies and dangers that led up to it.
• "White Mountain" and "The Prince's House"—These two short plays explore the light and dark sides of the spiritual world.
• Yeshua—The New Testament Gospels are explored in new and beautiful ways.
"Stewart's skill at dialogue and characterization, mingled with just the right amount of humor, drama, and pathos, anchors us to the play—we become more than mere observers. . . . What [A Roof Overhead] says to Mormons is, 'We are not alone in the world. We need to learn to get along with others of different or, sometimes, no faith.'"
—Excerpt from the AML Award Citation for Drama, 2012
"I'm getting more and more impatient to see great Mormon literature before I die! Thanks to Mahonri Stewart, we're coming closer. . . . I loved his A Roof Overhead. . . . Hooray for quality! It's coming!"
—Marilyn Brown, Association for Mormon Letters
"Mahonri Stewart's Yeshua tells the familiar story of Jesus, but unlike so many retellings of the Savior's life, it does not play like a highlights reel of the Gospels. At its heart, Yeshua is about our need for deeply personal relationships—not only with the divine, but with all of humanity."
—Scott Hales, literary critic and award-winning cartoonist of Garden of Enid
National-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart continues to explore the contours of spirituality in an increasingly complicated world. This volume includes:
• A Roof Overhead—The Fielding family's Mormon values conflict with their tenant's atheistic beliefs. Can mutual tolerance be found, or will tragedy ruin their chances for finding common ground?
• Friends of God—This play dramatizes the history of Joseph Smith's martyrdom and the controversies and dangers that led up to it.
• "White Mountain" and "The Prince's House"—These two short plays explore the light and dark sides of the spiritual world.
• Yeshua—The New Testament Gospels are explored in new and beautiful ways.
"Stewart's skill at dialogue and characterization, mingled with just the right amount of humor, drama, and pathos, anchors us to the play—we become more than mere observers. . . . What [A Roof Overhead] says to Mormons is, 'We are not alone in the world. We need to learn to get along with others of different or, sometimes, no faith.'"
—Excerpt from the AML Award Citation for Drama, 2012
"I'm getting more and more impatient to see great Mormon literature before I die! Thanks to Mahonri Stewart, we're coming closer. . . . I loved his A Roof Overhead. . . . Hooray for quality! It's coming!"
—Marilyn Brown, Association for Mormon Letters
"Mahonri Stewart's Yeshua tells the familiar story of Jesus, but unlike so many retellings of the Savior's life, it does not play like a highlights reel of the Gospels. At its heart, Yeshua is about our need for deeply personal relationships—not only with the divine, but with all of humanity."
—Scott Hales, literary critic and award-winning cartoonist of Garden of Enid
