WILLIAM GEBBY
Play And Film Maker
PLAYS 
Full-length
DOGWOOD AND SYCAMORE: After returning to his Indiana home, Guy Edwards--WW1 war-hero turned
pacifist--fights friends, family, and The Klan in an attempt to save the life
of an African-American man. (10 characters)
THE CONFESSIONAL: Two years after fighting, killing, and nearly dying for The North, Abolitionist
minister James Ferguson searches for absolution in the intellectual nooks
and crannies of Boston. (7 characters)
THE GERANIUM: The supernatural impinges on the natural as a martyred priest confronts his
childhood friend--a mercy-killing Nazi doctor. (6 characters)
A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD: In the depths of The Spanish Civil War, two Marxist freedom-fighters face
Death, Life, and each other in a quest for Meaning. (2 characters)
Short
physics teacher tries to recruit one of his students as a nuclear scientist.
(4 characters)
THE GERANIUM: The supernatural impinges on the natural as a martyred priest confronts his
childhood friend--a mercy-killing Nazi doctor. The original one-act version.
(4 characters)
WAR TO END ALL WARS: A WWI Military Hospital in France serves as the arena in which two AEF
psychiatrists attempt to "cure" Guy Edwards--a young war hero turned
pacifist. (3 characters)
Short-Short
THE LOVE In 1930's New England, a Marxist writer finds himself at odds with his faith,
POETRY OF KARL MARX: his wife, and his editor. (3 characters)
PAUCITY: While counseling a damaged seventeen-year-old girl, a psychologist is
confronted by the age-old question of whether to affirm--or deny--Love.
(2 characters)
MODERN WORLD: A divorced couple illustrates the old poem: "My love I gave for hate."
(2 characters)
Plays In Progress
BOB-HAIRED HUSSY serious soul-searching after happening across a free-spirited woman, her
FROM BABYLON: atheistic father, and an eccentric priest. (10 characters)
THE THORN TREE: On the same day terrorists destroy The Federal Building in Oklahoma City,
a college professor discovers her lover--a faithless priest--has a secret.
(2 characters)
INTIMATIONS: A terminally-ill woman and a terminally-disillusioned man fight Fate and each
other during a weekend on The West Coast. (5 characters)
A MAN'S A MAN: An African-American Freeman and an escaped slave struggle to survive the
horrors unleashed by The 1863 New York City "Draft Riots". (9 characters)
SCREENPLAYS 
Full-length
The Underground Railroad until she learns to care for a nine-year-old African-
American boy orphaned by slave-catchers.
DOGWOOD AND SYCAMORE: After returning to his Indiana home, Guy Edwards--WW1 war-hero turned
pacifist--battles friends, family, and The Klan in an attempt to save an
African-American man's life. (The film version of the play.)
A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD: In the depths of The Spanish Civil War, two Marxist freedom-fighters face
Death, Life, and each other in a quest for Meaning. (The film version of the
play.)
Short
psychiatrists attempt to "cure" Guy Edwards--a young war-hero turned
pacifist. (The film version of the play.)
Short-Short
PAUCITY: While counseling a damanged seventeen-year-old girl, a psychologist is
is confronted with the age-old question of whether to affirm--or deny--Love.
(The film version of the play.)
MODERN WORLD: A divorced couple illustrates the old poem: "My love I gave for hate."
(The film version of the play.)
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