by
Gary L. Blackwood
Synopsis (from The Carmel Pine Cone): "The Count of One concerns Dian, a burned-out hypnotherapist, who evokes John Wilkes Booth from her new patient, Stuart, while he is 'under.' At first, she thinks the tranced-out Stuart is simply identifying with the famous assassin, but deeper into the sessions, she begins to real- ize she is conversing with Booth himself and she becomes privy to some startling information." Based on a true incident.
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Gary L. Blackwood
6031 CR 105
Carthage, Missouri
USA 64836
Email: gblackwood@hotmail.com
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Mr. Blackwood's stage plays have been produced in regional and university theatres. As winner of the 1993 Missouri Scriptworks, Dark Horse, a historical courtroom drama, was given a staged reading in St. Louis; the following year it won a playwriting competition at the Ferndale Repertory Theatre, where it was given a full production. His stage adaptation of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is published by Baker's Plays, and an adaptation of The Shakespeare Stealer premiered at The Kennedy Center in March, 2002.
The Count of One was first produced by Festival of Firsts at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California in October, 2001.