{"id":850,"date":"2024-08-15T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/?page_id=850"},"modified":"2024-09-05T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:59:27","slug":"stage-screen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/stage-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage & Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stage & Screen<\/strong><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Michael's Stage Plays and Acting Roles<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Payable<\/strong> upon Return<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

A Play by Michael Varga<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

In 1983, the Juniper Press at the University of Notre Dame published a play that I had written, Payable Upon Return (ISBN#: 0911187-01-04). In 1985, the Acting Ensemble of South Bend, Indiana staged the premiere of that play.<\/span><\/p>\n

A two act play, Payable Upon Return centers on the conflicted reactions of a group of Americans when one returns from a stint in the Peace Corps in Africa with an African boy. One set, five actors. The premiere featured: Perry Mincy, Jerry Berebitsky, Mary Kay Blaschke, Chelle Walters and Dennis Mooney and directed by Jim Geisel.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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After Birth Stems the Urge<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

A Play by Michael Varga<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

While I was stationed at the American Consulate General in Casablanca, Morocco, some students at the Hassan II University decided to produce the first act of another play I had written,\u00a0After Birth Stems the Urge,<\/em>\u00a0about migrant farmworkers in the U.S.<\/p>\n

A three act play, After Birth Stems the Urge centers on the birth of a baby in a migrant camp on the
\nEastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay; and how this birth affects the priest and the nurse sent to work there, and changes the lives of the migrants. One set, nine actors. The premiere featured: Aboutaib Merieme (SJ), Mellouk Aziz (Louis), Keffaoui Brahim (Bobbie), Elouassi Hassan (Cestlavie), Lotfi Souad (Lucie), El Falh Amina (Katie) Mouadafi Aissa (Osborn), Akhmiss Redouan (Ben), Guerouani Mohamed (Matt). Directed by Chakib Bnini.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Epiphany in the Spud Room<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

A Play by Michael Varga<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

In 1991, the New Works Theatre of Arlington, VA produced a one act play I had written, called Epiphany in the Spud Room.<\/span><\/p>\n

This takes place in November 1979 in a school for training young men to be Jesuit priests and when the Iranian hostage crisis erupts, the commitment to the religious life must be re-examined at an accelerated pace. One set, four actors. The premiere featured: Robert Sean Fri (Matthew), Al Calabrese (Mark), Raymond Ficca (Luke), Steven Perry (John) and was Directed by Dennis Dulmage.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Acting<\/strong> Roles<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>