The Los Angeles Film & Script Festival named “THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS” as BEST SCRIPT (Action/Adventure) while giving Honorable Mention to “LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON”, “DON’T EAT PAPER!”, “PRAY WITH A BULLET” and the stage play “THE FRISCO FLASH”.
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This play is based on my own original historical research from primary sources, e.g. newspaper accounts, marriage, court and census records – of a now forgotten African-American welter weight boxing champion – Cecil Lewis Thompson, professionally known as Young Jack Thompson – who was born and died young in Los Angeles.
As he actually came to maturity in Oakland and San Francisco, he was initially lauded as “The Frisco Flash”, but soon the realities of being a black boxer in a world of white promoters, gangsters and gamblers took its toll. Young Jack’s story closely intersected with both a real life Jewish and an Irish boxer who also ended up champs in the same era. Despite it all, Young Jack won his crown twice, so he had a way of coming back after adversity.
The genre is heightened realism mixed with surrealism and utilizing especially the devices of the Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre.
I would like to invite you to watch my online play reading of “A WIFE IN THE SHADOWS” on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 2 PM PST on Zoom .
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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 consciousness. At first, however, she can only act on her feelings for her tempting next-door neighbor, Katrina, in a filmnoir 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.
Starring (in order of appearance): Demitra Sealy, Gabriella Biziou, Adam J. Smith, Marieve Herington, Cutty Cuthbert, Debralee Daco, Annika Marks and Ingrid Walters
About the Playwright: Julius Galacki is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, NYU’s Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Yale School of Drama – Playwriting dept. His monologues have been published by Smith & Kraus. His plays have been read or produced Off Off Broadway in NYC, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Connecticut, South Carolina and Hawaii.
© — Julius Galacki