Full-Length Play

The Seeker

A Serious Comedy in Two Acts                  by William Ivor Fowkes

If that's all there is, my friend, then let's keep dancing. - Peggy Lee

  

Tommy Hamilton is looking for God, love, and sex--but not necessarily in that order. At the moment, however, he's in a coma, reviewing his life and wondering, "Is that all there is?" Spanning 30 years of gay history, this play examines the relationship between gay men and organized religion as well as the impact of the AIDS crisis.

 

LENGTH: 1 hour 50 minutes (plus intermission)

CAST: 4M, 2F (43 characters) 

SETTING: Tommy Hamilton's mind, with stops in Ohio, New York City, Maine, and India.

TIME: 1972-2000

 

THE SEEKER is based on my unpublished novel, The Nonbeliever.

 

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HONORS & PRODUCTION HISTORY

 

2015: SEMI-FINALIST, Promising Playwright Award, Colonial Players, Annapolis, MD.

 

2015: SEMI-FINALIST, Princess Grace Playwriting Award.

 

2014: READING, Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, Manhasset, NY.