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Plays, books, and screenplays by Tom DeTittaPlays:
Darkness Lifting (Ghana, Fiji, Belfast))
Raucous, no holds barred 1920's melodrama which manages to incorporate a wide range of vaudeville performances. Commissioned by the Rylander Theater and Cultural Authority. Grace Will Lead Me Home: The American POW Drama Freedom and captivity are viewed across generations and circumstance in this innovative, multi-media production that begins with the story of the Andersonville Civil War Stockade. Commissioned by the Georgia Southwestern Foundation and winner of a North Carolina Arts Council Playwrights Fellowship. The Oregon Trail story told from both the perspective of the Native Americans and the pioneers, and performed in the place where the story reached its dramatic conclusion. Commissioned by the Oregon Trail Pageant. The Reach of Song Named the State Historic Drama by the Georgia Legislature, this epic musical production has been telling the story of southern Appalachia since 1989. Commissioned by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Searching for Innocence: Phnom Penh, 1996 Based on the story of Cambodia from the American intervention in Southeast Asia and the rise of the Khmer Rouge to the United Nations occupation in the mid 1990's, this play explores the destabilizing effect of good intentions.
See: Bulgaria Epic, immigrant saga commissioned for the Quincentennial by the Ebery Foundation and the Pennsylvania Museum and Historic Commission.. The story of President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter created with their participation as well as the participation of friends, family, and members of the Carter administration. The play focuses on the racial conflicts of the president's native south Georgia which helped to forge his political and humanitarian perspective. Commissioned by the Rylander Theater and Cultural Authority. See: Plains, Georgia Books :
Story of my own 8,000 mile hitchhiking trip across the country which explores what happens to a person who does not know where he is going to sleep each night for a period of six months. A collection of stories about unwitting travelers who find themselves removed from the familiar circumstances of their lives in various locations throughout the world. See: India The novel accompaniment to the screenplay of the same name, this work explores the traumatic loneliness of high school from the perspective of swiftly advancing ice hockey pucks.
The film about Jimmy Carter allows for a broadening of the themes explored in the play to show the places and circumstances that led to the 'swimming upstream' perspective of this president who continually ignored opinion polls and routinely engaged in that which others might consider political suicide. The film version of the above mentioned novel story further surrounds the story of teenage alienation with an unhealthy dose of 1970's bad taste.
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Five stories from five places in the world that embrace the circumstances of
people in different forms of need. Commissioned by Habitat for Humanity
International for their 25th Anniversary Celebration. 
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