A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank

Book excerpt: A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank: Volume III introduces ten new plays by playwright Mark Frank. In the hilarious comedy, I Swear By The Eyes of Oedipus! we get find Oedipus great, great, great, great...(well you get the point) grandson try to come to terms with the prophecy that he will sleep with his mother and kill his father. In Hurricane Iphigenia, Category 5, Tragedy in Darfur we are taken to the Sudan region in Africa by the Greek princess. Can she save the two million displaced Christian Africans hunted by the Islamic Janjaweed? In the drama, The Rainy Trails we go on a spiritual Native American journey with Rainy trying to tackle racism. In the Greek play Iphigenia Rising, Electra, Iphigenia and Orestes are faced with the blame game with the deaths of their parents from alcohol which will change their lives forever. In The Rock of Troy, the Iliad is revisited with all twenty-four books translated with no dialogue, only action and classical rock music from the seventies and eighties. Five new oneacts are also introduced in the book with the dramatic plays, The Mahmudiyah Incident, The Land of Never, and A Christmas Musical, and the comedies Trouble’s Revenge, a sequel to A Purrfect Life, and Humpty Dumpty: the musical?