Synopsis:  It is just after World War 2, and Sian and her husband Joe love each other, but each has been changed by their wartime experiences.  For Sian, working in an aircraft factory was the beginning of an evolution of her consciousness about her sexuality.  At first, however, she can only act on her feelings for her tempting next-door neighbor, Katrina, in a Film Noir fantasy where Sian is the detective and Katrina is the femme fatale.  Meanwhile Joe struggles with both PTSD and survivor guilt. Sian eventually finds the courage to accept her sexuality and risk everything in real life.

In the style of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and other classical comedies, the play is chock-a-block with word play, alliterations, internal rhymes and couplets, physical buffoonery and mistaken identities. “THE MASTER AND THE MAGICIAN”is a fractured fairy tale for adults.

On the final night of a magician’s life, she seeks to pass on her knowledge to an heir, while at the same time playing a last game of hearts with a puckish fairy spirit in which they use four lovers as pawns.

However, underlying the comedy and farce are serious disquisitions into love, gender, the nature of leadership and especially the metaphor of the artist as magician.

Synopsis: When “Young Jack” Thompson became the second African-American to win a boxing title in 1930, he was paid $14.85 after “expenses” while the losing white boxer made $37,640. Today Thompson is forgotten, yet his story is more than a historical footnote. It resonates to our current world.Thompson rose and fell and rose again, over and over. We follow his life from 1920 to 1946 (but scenes also occur through the subsequent decades, including up to today) as Thompson navigates around corrupt boxing officials and gangsters, the Klu Klux Klan in Los Angeles, his complicated relationship with his step father, his wife and his lover, and not least, his friendship and rivalry with both an Irish boxer and a Jewish boxer.