Round Bend Press is pleased to announce the publication of Charles Deemer's Eight Oregon Plays.
Deemer made his reputation as a playwright in Portland, Oregon in the 1980s by telling stories of loggers and longshoremen, country singers and urbanites, bartenders and drinkers. Here, collected together for the first time, are eight of the best of these, "the Oregon plays."
From Swami Kree in Christmas at the Juniper Tavern to the disgruntled longshoremen of 1934: Blood and Roses, to the agony of the late-great Oregon Sen. Wayne Morse as he opposed the Vietnam War and battled rising neo-Republicanism in American Gadfly--plus a whole lot of characters in between--Deemer has painted a complex, deep-rooted picture of Oregon for theater lovers who desire a taste of the state's real history and color.
Buy this book now, enjoy it, read the plays to your loved ones or classroom full of hungry students--or better, stage them--and appreciate the gift of a writer who has made Oregon his home for four decades.
TS
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