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Matt discovers the perilous road through paradise–and the poverty, disease and hopelessness of the Haitian people. Once at the mission, he innocently becomes the target of reprisals from the corrupt head missionary. On a day-trip to Port-au-Prince with one of the seminarians, Matt falls in love with Rachel, a rich, mulatto daughter of a rebellious government dignitary. Matt endures a strange aphrodisiacal ritual, a voodoo ceremony, and a violent storm in his quest to be with the girl of his dreams. But Rachel’s father leads a failed coup against dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier and Rachel and her family vanish. Heroically, Matt leads the militia on a perilous chase across Haiti to reunite with her.
LOS ANGELES, 1966
Matthew Banning is a quirky, 14-year-old preacher’s kid who is victimized by his classmates and alienated by his mentally ill mother. Expecting a summer full of surfing and romance, his dreams are dashed when he and his two brothers are spirited away by his missionary father to Haiti.
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Excerpt fromWorlds Apart
Political Mystery
a play by Tom Eubanks
April 23 - May 30, 2010
The Elite Theatre Company
Oxnard, CA.
805-483-5118
Go To http://www.elitetheatre.org/
When a liberal professor goes missing from a rural California college, detectives investigate his colleague, a conservative political science professor, who has recently been widowed. During the course of the interrogations of the professor and witnesses by a middle-of-the-road homicide detective and her liberal partner, the mysterious disappearance becomes a battle of political will and wits to get to the truth. And the truth exposes the biases held by everyone involved, humbling the arrogant and raising the humble.
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