LITTLE ROME - Iowa

Three one act plays that have been written to be

performed as a full production with three acts.

Set in a mythical small town in Iowa - but rooted in stories and experiences of the author while a professor at Clark College in Dubuque-these three one-act plays were first published by Samuel French as individual pieces. Now the author has reworked them and added a prologue and epilogue to bind the three into one play that paints a portrait of small-town America that is at once both unique and universal.

Little Rome, Iowa is written in a style of the author's prize-winning play, "A company of Wayward Saints", A form he calls "phrasing" and which is intended as a guide to the delivery of the actors.

"Brighton The Corner" tells of the people and places surrounding the death of an old nun at the motherhouse of her order.

"A Simple Little Affair" deals with the complex and often comic relationships and the affirmation of faith that is at the heart of every wedding.

"An Echo of Wings" calls upon the dead victims of a parochial school fire that claimed the lifes of over 90 students and that their teachers in an effort to descern a purpose or a meaning behind such a tragedy.