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As The World Turns

Short Play, Drama

Howard Zinn

Michael and Billy visit their mother, who is in a coma, and must decide whether to sign the DNR. As the brothers confront mortality – both their own and their mother’s – Billy decides that it’s more humane to take matters into his own hands.

As The World Turns

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Michael and Billy visit their mother, who is in a coma, and must decide whether to sign the DNR. As the brothers confront mortality – both their own and their mother’s – Billy decides that it’s more humane to take matters into his own hands.
MICHAEL NORTON - 40s, Lithuanian heritage; an academic now working in Washington on the President's staff; perhaps was in Air Force Intelligence in Vietnam
DELPHINE SNOW - late 30s, Michael's wife, kept her maiden name; attractive, tastefully dress

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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States, “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those whose plight has been largely omitt ...
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