Northern Aggression: And The Creek Don't Rise - Softcover

Zettelmaier, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944540156 ISBN 13: 9781944540159

Publisher: Sordelet Ink, 2016

Synopsis

A comedy. Rob and Maddie Graff have left their lives in Michigan hoping to find greener pastures in Georgia. They are welcomed by their neighbor Dr. Benjamin Boggs, a retired physician, a Civil War reenactor, and a life-long Georgian. Cultural misunderstandings lead to a private war between Rob and Doc, with neither side willing to admit defeat.

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About the Author

Joseph Zettelmaier is a Michigan-based playwright and four-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play, first in 2006 for All Childish Things, then in 2007 for Language Lessons, in 2010 for It Came From Mars and in 2012 for Dead Man’s Shoes. Other plays include Ebenezer, And The Creek Don’t Rise, The All Childish Things Trilogy, Dr. Seward’s Dracula, Snow Angels, Blackwater Ballad, Night Blooming, Point of Origin, and The Stillness Between Breaths. Point of Origin won Best Locally Created Script 2002 from the Ann Arbor News, and The Stillness Between Breaths also won Best New Play 2005 from the Oakland Press. The Stillness Between Breaths and It Came From Mars were selected to appear in the National New Play Network’s Festival of New Plays. He also co-authored Flyover, USA: Voices From Men of the Midwest at the Williamston Theatre (Winner of the 2009 Thespie Award for Best New Script). He also adapted Christmas Carol’d for the Performance Network. It Came From Mars was a recipient of 2009’s Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and won Best New Script 2010 from the Lansing State Journal. His play Dead Man’s Shoes won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011. He is an Artistic Associate at First Folio Theatre, an Artistic Ambassador to the National New Play Network and an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches Dramatic Composition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sordelet Ink
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944540156
• ISBN 13: 9781944540159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138