I'm glad you dropped by for a visit! I invite you to explore my website and discover what I've been up to for the last decade or so. You can view my portfolio to see the shows I've directed in recent years. Or you can check out the many plays I've written and translated. (I'd be thrilled if you'd order a script!) If you're looking to request performance rights for one of my plays or make contact with me to discuss a guest lecture, then you've come to the right place. You'll find links and information for all of this below. And please remember to use the links across the top of the page to navigate this site. It makes getting around so much easier. Enjoy!
I am a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, and university professor (now working at Regent University in Virginia Beach). Although I established this website primarily to disseminate information about my playwrighting activities, it also serves to promote my work as actor and director. And sometimes folks just want to know a little more about me, and this website should be helpful to those folks as well.
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Explore the timeline below to see what I've written, published, and produced during the last decade. Click on the arrows left and right to
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Calling All Collaborators!
It's been a productive decade. I am looking to double my output during the next ten years. And I am always looking for partners with whom to collaborate. Anyone interested?
I graduated from Baylor University with an MFA in Stage Directing in August 2000! I was also hired as a Lecturer by the theater department at Baylor to teach courses for both the graduate and undergraduate programs. In June 2000, I staged Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo" in Baylor's Mabee Theatre; I revived the play for Baylor Theatre's regular season in the fall of 2000.
In December 2001, I presented a paper entitled "Religiocosmic Fiction: A Cultural Reading of Literary Genre" at The Forum on Contemporary Theory in Konark, India, which was subsequently published in the "Journal of Contemporary Thought." This year I also conducted an oral history project entitled "Four Decades of Progress: Interviews with Bill Cook & Pat Cook." These interviews have been transcribed and deposited in the Oral History Institute at Baylor.
In 2002, I presented a paper entitled "The Epic Web: Origin Stories of the Epic Theater" at the International Federation of Theater Research (ITRF) World Congress in Amsterdam. I also portrayed Chebutykin (the Doctor) in Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" as directed by Fran Lumbard for Baylor Theatre. And I published my full-length comedy "The Cattleman’s Suite" with Writers Club Press. Most significantly, this is the year I co-founded the Horton Foote Society with Dr. Marion Castleberry.
In January 2003, I began new employment as Director of Theatre at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. My first point of business was to establish three educational play festivals: the 24 HOURS play festival, the New Plays Festival for Emerging American Playwrights (which resulted in the publication of "New Plays Festival, Volume One: New One-Act Plays by Emerging American Playwrights"), and the annual Playwrights Workshop, staging my play DOGFALL as the inaugural production of the workshop.
In 2004, I was awarded SETC's prestigious CHARLES M. GETCHELL NEW PLAY AWARD for my original play "Dogfall." In the months following, "Dogfall" also received NCTC's NEW PLAY AWARD, the MARK GILBERT NEW PLAY AWARD, and was named a semi-finalist in Edward Albee’s Last Frontier Theater Festival. Further, "Dogfall" was slated for production as the NC New Play Project by the Greensboro Playwrights Forum. I also directed Steven Walter's "A Mysterious Way," Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba," and Shaw's "Misalliance."
My full-length play "Dogfall" was published as the cover story in "Southern Theatre Magazine" (SETC's quarterly magazine) in fall 2005. I served as editor for the "Horton Foote Review, Volume One" and published a collection of plays from our 24 HOURS festival entitled "The Best of 24 HOURS: New Ten-Minute Plays." I also directed "The Skin of Our Teeth," Euripides' tragedy "Medea," and the world premiere of my own play "Purging Mary."
In 2006, I won the award for OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR at the Metrolina Theatre Association's annual award competition for my production of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," for which I take much pride considering that "Godot" is arguably the most difficult piece of dramatic literature in the modern cannon. I also directed the Musical "Baby," and I published "New Plays Festival, Volume One: New One-Act Plays by Emerging American Playwrights."
In summer 2007, I saw published an article entitled "The Epic Web: Origin Stories of the Epic Theatre" in the Journal of Drama Studies: An International Journal of Research on World Drama in English. My wife and I spent our summer translating Corneille's neo-classical tragedy "Polyeucte." I then directed the play in its new English translation (entitled "Martyr!") during the fall semester. I also authored a deconstruction of "King Lear" and staged it at GWU, which was later featured in an article in American Theatre Magazine.
In this very productive year, I published "LEAR ReLoaded," "Dogfall," "Gloria Dei," "Purging Mary," and, our new English version of Corneille's play "Polyeucte," (entitled "Martyr!"). I also directed two world premieres: "The Five Step Plan" by Heather Bartlett and my own drama "Gloria Dei." I also directed Miller's "The Crucible" which was subsequently awarded "Outstanding Production" at the Metrolina Theatre Association’s award competition, receiving 7 nomination and earning 5 awards.
I collected three of my plays in a single volume entitled "The Culture War Plays: Dogfall, Purging Mary, Gloria Dei." I also directed the Broadway Musical "Lil Abner" and Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano." Of great importance to me was the opportunity to direct the world premiere of my own play "Luminarium," which was subsequently translated into Armenian.
My full-length play "Gadfly" was published in the prestigious Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies published by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research. I also saw my poem "Midnight’s Somber Dream" published in "The Taj Mahal Review: An International Literary Journal." I also directed Ionesco's "Exit the King," Chekhov's "Three Sisters," and my own original play "Big Brother 2014."
In January, I played the role of Dr. McKenzie in my own play "Dogfall", which was staged by the Sanguine Theatre Troupe for its professional premiere at the North Carolina Stage Company in Asheville. I completed my work at GWU with a wonderful production of the smash hit Musical "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." I also published several plays: "Gadfly," "Luminarium," and "Big Brother 2014." In 2011, I took an agent and begin working as an actor in film, television, and commercials.
In May, I accepted an offer of employment to work as Associate Professor of Theater at Regent University in Virginia Beach where I will be teaching in the School of Undergraduate Studies. I begin my employment there in August 2012.
I am proficient in a number of design-specific software programs. The Bar Chart below indicates my proficiency in each of these.
The Cover Art for my published plays are seen in the carousel below. Click on an image to learn more about the script or to purchase a copy.
In this section I present my Academic CV, my Director's Resume, my Actor's Resume, and additional media materials related to my work as an actor. I am including a number of my Actor Headshot in the sliding file box below, as well as some "character photographs" from various venues. Click on the tabs at the top of the box and the panels will load in. Under the third and fourth tabs you will find a couple of video auditions, which I put together for my agent, and a couple of film clips from my film reel.
Click here to view my two-page Director's Resume as a PDF file.
Click here to view my one-page Actor's Resume as a PDF file.
I am a seasoned theater professional with a demonstrated penchant for the classic plays of the stage. As an actor, I have played Romeo in ROMEO AND JULIET, Caliban in THE TEMPEST, Sir Andrew in TWELFTH NIGHT, and Estragon in WAITING FOR GODOT. I have also played the Baritone Leads in the Musicals THREE GUYS... and JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS. My most successful role, which I have repeated three times, was Tito Mirelli in LEND ME A TENOR. As a stage director, I have directed Euripides' MEDEA, Shaw's MISALLIANCE, Corneille's POLYEUCTE, Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT, and a number of Shakespeare's plays, to include MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and THE TEMPEST. As an college professor, I have taught coursework in stage directing, theater history, dramatic literature, theater business & non-profit management, stage combat, and acting at all levels.
Welcome. In this panel I am including the media portion of my resume. You'll find a panel with professional actor headshots, followed by a panel with character photographs from various venues. In the last two panels you will find video selections. First, audition monologues put together for my agent; and finally video selections from films I have appeared in. Enjoy!
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This is a partial portfolio of the shows I've directed (and a couple I designed or acted in). Hover your mouse over a thumbnail to see the name of the show. Click on a thumbnail image and a larger photo of the production will pop up for viewing. Click the "X" on the corner of the photo to close it. And click on the arrows to the right of the grid to move to the next set of photographs. It's that simple.
Thanks for your interest in my work! In the panels below you will find information about my recent writing and directing projects. Several of the projects have links to other websites, so check out these links as well. And I'd love to hear your response, so drop me a line. Enjoy!
We all like to read a good book. And those of us working in the theater are always in pursuit of the next good play script. But the ever-rising price of books (and scripts in particular) has forced many of us to be more selective in our purchasing strategy. So to help ensure my plays are not being skipped over because of a reader's small budget, I am making my finished scripts available for reading online in the form of flipbooks. The flipbook format prevents unauthorized printing or download of the document, while giving the reader full access to the material free of charge. If the script is a fit, then we talk about performance rights and script purchases. I view this as a win-win situation for all parties involved. I hope you'll take advantage of the offer and peruse my work online. Click the button below for a list of plays available in the FlipBook format. Enjoy!
In the spring of 2007, Gardner-Webb University Theater mounted a daring postmodern deconstruction of Shakespeare's play King Lear entitled LEAR ReLoaded, written and directed by Scot Lahaie, designed by Christopher Keene, with original rock music by Jon Lorbacher.
This retelling of the King Lear myth explores the weak dualities of god/man and blessing/cursing in order to underline the medieval mindset of the original work and reposition the narrative as a post-modern dramatic event. Although the play is a derivative work, it preserves much of the Bard’s original language.
The cast featured performances by Jacob Jackson as Lear, Caleb Moore as the Fool, Stacie Worrell as Cordelia, and Matthew B. Fraiser as Edgar and Mad Tom.
Visit the LEAR ReLoaded Home Page for more information!Envisioned as a cosmic Cabaret beyond the space-time continuum, Gadfly explores the power of the establishment to determine what we call accepted truth, and chronicles how it has historically been the outsider that has moved our understanding of truth forward. Special guests are invited to defend their teachings or actions, including Socrates, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Picasso, Beckett, and science philosopher William Dembski. These visitations are marshaled by a musical Poet Guide named Virgil (shades of Dante), who is backed by a British threesome with a ukulele and a squeeze box. Virgil keeps the action moving forward as the "Idols of the Institution" play judge and jury over the minds of history's greatest thinkers. The resulting journey beyond space and time sheds light on the present claims of science as compared to the claims of the greatest thinkers down through the ages. It is, above all else, an exoneration of contemporary scholars choosing to explore Intelligent Design as a legitimate discipline in the academy, both scientifically and philosophically.
This new dramatic piece explores the recent trend of big government to limit American freedoms.
The scene is set in 2014 after the US President has signed the Internet Control Act, allowing the government to limit free speech on the Internet. The story follows Big Brother's attempt to hunt down and destroy a rogue blogger named Spartacus who defies the government's takeover of the Net and broadcasts the cold hard truth of the fall of the Republic.
The play saw its World Premiere in the Dover Theater on the campus of Gardner-Webb University in March 2010, and it is scheduled for production in Brownwood, Texas in Spring 2012.
A wry look at life in the office, this Musical tells the story of Alan Zookowski in his battle against management's attempt to reduce the workforce by ninety-five percent. But despite the office shenanigans, this Musical tells the powerful love story of Alan and his office sweetheart Zoey and they pursue their love in the face of impossible (although comic) odds.
The re-occuring songs of "The American Dream" and "Our Mission is Attrition" keep the plot moving forward, while show-stopping numbers like "I Am the Omega Man" and "Sweat Shop" keep the audience love flowing.
With script and libretto written by Scot Lahaie and a delightful musical score composed by Roger Lowe, this yet-unproduced Musical is sure to please audiences everywhere. Producers interested in bringing this delightful script to the stage should make contact with the author via the contact page.
MARTYR! is about the founding of the Armenian Church. Saint Polyeucte is the main character, a zealous Christian who is trying to convert and save his people from their polytheistic religion. In a zealous rage, Polyeucte desecrates the Roman temple, a crime punishable with death; but being the son-in-law of the governor, death was not an easy verdict to give.
My favorite element of the play is that it’s a love story, despite the tragic elements of death and deception. It is a play full of big heroic drama. It’s the classic literary dialectic between love and duty; Polyeucte must ultimately choose between his wife and his faith. I am very enthusiastic about this play (both the script and our recent production). It is a powerful drama.
Corneille play is little known in America; we have essentially rescued a play from the shadows of obscurity that should be known in America. The last English translation of the play was done in 1957, but it is, in my opinion, burdened with archaic language. I believe this new translation will speak to modern audiences.
This is the section of my website where I update my fans on what's been happening in my career and with my playwrighting activities. This is the only part of my site that is updated regularly. Check back often. Or follow my full blog at WordPress.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, a peer reviewed journal with a prestigious international editorial board, selected Professor Lahaie's newest play GADFLY for inclusion in their 2010 volume entitled "Intelligent Design and Artificial Intelligence: The Ghost in the Machine". Copies of the Journal may be ordered online at www.jis3.org/.
GADFLY has also been published in a paperback edition with Clay Tablet Publication and is available for purchase at LULU.com.
The Sanguine Theatre Troupe presented a professional production of DOGFALL as a part of NC Stage Company’s Catalyst Series on January 14th-16th and 21st-23rd 2011. The Sanguine Theatre Troupe presents DOGFALL, a new, award winning play, as a part of NC Stage Company’s Catalyst Series on January 14th-16th and 21st-23rd. The play stars Bradley James Archer, an Asheville native, as the radical Mike Howard in a follow-up role to his recent appearance as Treves in Carolina Actors Studio Theatre’s (C.A.S.T.) production of THE ELEPHANT MAN, for which he received rave reviews. Appearing opposite Archer is Scot Lahaie, the author of the play and Professor of Theatre at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. A veteran of the theater, Lahaie is making his regional debut as an actor in this production. Lahaie portrays Dr. Jake McKenzie, a doctor known for assisting his patients commit suicide because of terminal illness. Now in its seventh year, the NC Stage Catalyst Series features performances from local, grassroots theatre companies. NC Stage collaborates with these exciting companies to expand its own programming while providing resources for innovative theatre. Visit www.ncstage.org/for more information about the series.
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BOILING SPRINGS, NC- The Gardner-Webb University Theatre Program won multiple awards at the much-anticipated Metrolina Theatre Awards (MTA) in Charlotte, NC this week. GWU made an outstanding showing by winning six awards (13 nominations) including key awards for "The Crucible". The awards won by Gardner-Webb were:
I know what every playwright knows: it doesn't matter how many plays you write or how good they are, because if no one reads them, they are of little value. The FlipBook Project is designed to get my scripts into the hands of avid script readers, particularly directors who show interest in directing new fully-developed plays. The ever-rising price of scripts (and books in general) has forced many of us to be more selective in our purchasing strategy. So to help ensure my plays are not being skipped over because of a reader's small budget, I am making all of my finished scripts available for reading online in the form of flipbooks. The flipbook format prevents unauthorized printing or download of the document, while giving the reader full access to the material free of charge. If the script is a fit, then we talk about performance rights and script purchases. I view this as a win-win situation for all parties involved. I hope you'll take advantage of the offer and peruse my work online. Click the tabs of the accordion sliders below for a list of plays available in the FlipBook format. Enjoy!
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In the spring of 2007, Gardner-Webb University Theater mounted a daring postmodern deconstruction of Shakespeare's play King Lear entitled LEAR ReLoaded. This photo book and script is a record of that unique and exciting production complete with photographs, notes, candid backstage photos, and the complete script.
This retelling of the King Lear myth explores the weak dualities of god/man and blessing/cursing in order to underline the medieval mindset of the original work and reposition the narrative as a post-modern dramatic event. Although the play is a derivative work, it preserves much of the Bard’s original language.
Visit the LEAR ReLoaded Home Page!The action of the play takes place in a mostly abandoned tenement building in Dallas, Texas. Mike Howard—a radical from the far religious right—has kidnapped Dr. Jake McKenzie, Dallas’ famed suicide doctor—with the intent to serve his own homegrown justice upon the doctor, since the courts have yet to convict him of any wrongdoing. Mike presents evidence of McKenzie’s wrongdoing in a mock trial while silencing McKenzie’s attempt to justify his actions. Underestimating his elderly captive, Mike lets his guard down and is overpowered by the wily physician. Instead of escaping his captor, McKenzie places the now-chained radical on trial in like manner, an opportunity the doctor uses to defend his own actions and give voice to the radical left. The plot takes an unexpected turn as the play reaches its climax, throwing both characters into turmoil. Constructed as a dialectic, this play explores the extreme positions (both politically and socially) represented in the Right-to-Die debate active in the United States over the last twenty-five years. Although the play's focus is on doctor-assisted suicide, the author explores the whole of the ethical quagmire represented in the right-to-die movement—abortion, euthanasia, sanctity of life, the life to come, religious zealotry and more.
Visit the DOGFALL Home Page!This drama uses the domestic conflict surrounding a planned abortion to expose the political intricacies of abortion-on-demand in America. Joe Seymour and his wife Mary wait in a hospital room for test results. At Joe’s insistence, they are seeking to abort the baby in Mary’s womb. A black man has allegedly raped her one weekend when her husband was away on business. Joe’s southern upbringing makes the thought of bringing this child into the world unbearable. But Joe is a deacon in his church and chairs the local Right-to-Life movement. Counseled against his dangerous course of action by pastors and friends, Joe forces his wife to move forward with his decision to terminate the pregnancy, effectively ending his relationship with church, friends, and community. A tenacious physician discovers that the age of the fetus is inconsistent with the date of the rape—evidence that the child in Mary’s womb does not belong to the man who raped her. This revelation leads Joe to believe that he was just hours away from aborting his own child, which causes him great consternation and regret. While the repentant couple revels in their nuptial joys, the doctor runs a paternity test to verify his assumptions, but discovers that Joe is not the father of the baby. Backed in a corner, Mary owns up to her long-standing marital unfaithfulness, forcing the play to its frightful climax.
This drama explores the ethical choices surrounding the starvation of a young woman diagnosed as being in a Persistent Vegetative State or PVS. Although a fictional story, this play echoes the Terry Schaivo court case from 2005. This play premiered in February 2008 in Gardner r-Webb University's annual Playwrights Workshop.
This new dramatic piece explores the recent trend of big government to limit American freedoms. The scene is set in 2014 after the US President has signed the Internet Control Act, allowing the government to limit free speech on the Internet. The story follows Big Brother's attempt to hunt down and destroy a rogue blogger named Spartacus who defies the government's takeover of the Net and broadcasts the cold hard truth of the fall of the Republic. The play saw its World Premiere in the Dover Theater on the campus of Gardner-Webb University from March 2 - 6, 2010, and is being staged in Texas in 2012.
LUMINARIUM is a dramatic retelling of the conversion of King Drtad, the first of the Armenian kings to embrace the Christian faith. The play moves past the genre of historical drama as it follows Drtad’s encounters with the Most High God and his prophet Gregory the Illuminator. The play has recently been translated into Armenian.
This play, which is an ironic comedy with music, explores the power of the establishment to determine what we call accepted truth, and chronicles how it has historically been the outsider that has moved our understanding of truth forward. The play is a cosmic Cabaret where special guests are invited to defend their teachings or actions, to include Socrates, Galileo, & Darwin. Backed by a ukulele and a squeeze box, a Poet Guide named Virgil keeps the action moving forward as the "Idols of the Institution" play judge and jury over the minds of our history's greatest thinkers.
The play scripts listed in this section have not yet been published in the FlipBook format. Several are unpublished manuscripts. Reading copies are available upon request for thoses considering producing the work.
A wry look at life in the office, this Musical tells the story of Alan Zookowski in his battle against management's attempt to reduce the workforce by ninety-five percent. But despite the office shenanigans, this Musical tells the powerful love story of Alan and his office sweetheart Zoey and they pursue their love in the face of impossible (although comic) odds.
The re-occuring songs of "The American Dream" and "Our Mission is Attrition" keep the plot moving forward, while show-stopping numbers like "I Am the Omega Man" and "Sweat Shop" keep the audience love flowing.
With script and libretto written by Scot Lahaie and a delightful musical score composed by Roger Lowe, this yet unproduced Musical is sure to please audiences everywhere. Producers interested in bring this delightful script to the stage should make contact with the author via the contact page.
Located on the 13th floor of the Dallas Grand Hotel, the cattleman’s suite is the chosen site of Julie Drithers’ not-so-happy engagement party. Her father, a once wealthy but now almost bankrupt Texas oilman, has rented the old suite again to celebrate his daughter’s engagement in the same place and manner that he had celebrated his own engagement 30 years earlier. Only this time the engagement is the father’s idea, not the bride’s. Through the calculated wedding of his daughter to Matt Snooker, the son of his best friend and founder of the industry’s leading pipe and rigging company, Mr. Drithers hopes to save his own ailing oil company and avoid disaster. However, he gets more disaster than he can handle when Bobby, Julie’s true love, sets out to rescue his one-and-only. Drithers' problems seem small compared to Julie’s wrath when she learns of the deception played upon her. Add an untimely pregnancy, two clumsy villains, a hotel staff from hell, and the recipe for comedy is complete! The play requires a cast of 9 men and 3 women, and a single realistic interior. Running time is just under 2 hours. This play is the first in a planned trilogy of Texas Hotel Comedies. The following 2 plays (presently in progress) are entitled THE CATTLE BARON'S BALL and COWPOKES AND CATTLEPRODS.
William Jefferson Makepeace, age 83, is terminally ill. He has experienced great success in a high-level business career and has amassed a considerable fortune. Unfortunately, he has not enjoyed it and has had no one with whom he could share it. At the end of his life, he summons the four people closest to him for an afternoon tea--his purpose is to read his living will and divide his fortune with them before his illness takes his sanity and autonomy. Not understanding the gravity of the invitation, not even one of his invited guests appear for the reading of the will. Speaking to an empty table, the old man disinherits the four friends and gives his fortune to his servants. He then kills himself in despair.
Written about the first American conflict in Iraq (Desert Storm), this 25-minute post-modern drama looks at the atrocity of war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there. The media coverage hailed Desert Storm to be a major American victory--almost no blood shed by the allied force, while hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers were wiped away or captured. This play reveals that no military conflict is without repercussions for the individuals who fought it. Published in NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL, Volume One: New One-Act Plays by Emerging American Playwrights. New York: iUniverse, 2003.
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Description coming soon.In this section, I list the screenplays I have written. Although I am actively marketing these scripts to producers and directors, they have yet to be optioned for production. If you are a film producer and would like me to send you a screenplay, please make contact with me. I'd be happy to put a copy in your hands.
The story begins in ancient Rome with a young Roman girl named Pauline saying goodbye to the handsome Roman soldier Severus as he marches to war. Their love has been forbidden by her noble father Felix because Severus has no claim to fame, fortune or pedigree. For virtue's sake, she obeys her father, while he seeks a noble death on the field of battle. Pauline then travels with her father to Armenia, where he has been appointed Governor of the province. It is there she meets the handsome Armenian prince, Polyeucte. In the meanwhile, Severus fights bravely on the battlefield hoping to find a noble death, but inadvertently distinguishes himself instead, eventually saving the Emperor himself from certain death. It is on that occasion that he falls on the battlefield against the Persians, his body being snatched away by the enemy. When news of Severus' death reaches the frontier, Pauline is cast into a long season of mourning, wherein Polyeucte becomes her constant comfort and companion. This leads to their engagement and marriage the following spring.
The story reaches its mid-point when we discover that Severus did not really die on the battlefield that fateful day, but actually recovered from his wounds in the camp of the Persian King. After many attempts to recruit Severus to the Persian army, he is exchanged for a hundred Persian prisoners. Severus is hailed as Rome's greatest son as the Emperor showers honors upon him for his brave deeds. Severus then travels to the Armenian frontier to ask Felix for Pauline's hand in marriage since he is now worthy of her hand, but discovers that she is newly married to the young prince, ending his hopes for marriage.
In the meantime, Polyeucte has converted to the Christian faith, which leads him to radical action against the pagan gods-a desecration of the pagan temple. This brings about his imprisonment and his co-conspirator's execution. The law demands Polyeucte's repentance before a pardon can be issued to him, but as a zealous young Christian, he is resolute and refuses to repent his deeds, preferring death instead. Because Felix fears that the now-powerful Severus may take vengeance upon him for denying his match to Pauline, he holds to the letter of the law and has Polyeucte executed for his crime. This leads Pauline to reject her father and the Roman gods, converting instead to the faith of her Christian husband. She then demands that Felix execute her as well, since she is guilty of the same crimes as her husband. She even topples a few statues of Zeus to insure his compliance. This leads to a visitation of grace upon Felix who then repents his actions against Polyeucte, gives up his claim to rule as Governor, and is subsequently converted to the Christian faith, acknowledging that he made Polyeucte a martyr and that Polyeucte has made him a Christian. Severus threatens to bring the full weight of his wrath down upon Felix, but is struck by the change in Felix and Pauline. He thus vows to be the protector of Christians in the province and to stand against the Emperor's mad scheme to annihilate all those that call themselves Christian.
The action of the film takes place mostly in an abandoned tenement building in Dallas, Texas. Mike Howard-a radical from the far religious right-has kidnapped Dr. Jake McKenzie-Dallas' famed suicide doctor-with the intent to serve his own homegrown justice upon the doctor, since the courts have yet to convict him of any wrongdoing. Mike presents evidence of McKenzie's wrongdoing in a mock trial while silencing McKenzie's attempt to justify his actions. Underestimating his elderly captive, Mike lets his guard down and is overpowered by the wily physician. Instead of escaping his captor, McKenzie places the now chained radical on trial in like manner, an opportunity the doctor uses to defend his own actions and give voice to the radical left. The plot takes an unexpected turn as the play reaches its climax, throwing both characters into turmoil. Intwined with this plot is the story of Lionel Fisher, Police Detective, and his attempt to find the missing doctor before it is too late.
This short film (25 minutes running time) tells the story of the elderly William Jefferson Makepeace. At age 83, he has amassed a fortune but has sacrificed everything and everyone who was close to him to accomplish it. Having been diagnosed with a terminal disease, he invites the four people closest to him to an afternoon of drinks where he plans to read his last will and testament, and then to divide his estate among them. The four friends include his brother, his secretary, a young protégé, and an elderly business partner. When not even one of his guests appears for the party, he reads his will to the empty chairs, disinheriting the lot of them and giving his estate to charity. He then ends it all with a collectible firearm he keeps near his bed.
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