The Road to Damascus
by Tom Dulack

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THE STORY: As full-scale civil war rages in Syria, a bomb explodes in Manhattan and all roads lead to Damascus.

A peace-seeking African Pope is elected to the Vatican and an Evangelical third-party president is in power in the US.

With nuclear war looming, will the new Pope intervene directly in American foreign policy, or will he accede to the demands of Washington?

Riddled with international intrigue, Tom Dulack's astonishingly prescient play imagines a world ripped from today's headlines.

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"Serious...satisfying...consciences are examined, allegiances are tested and politics are debated…builds a thick mood of intrigue…This near-future tale of an ill-conceived American plan feels authentic enough to have you believe that such events could take place any day. Or to remind you that similar ones have already occurred.” —The New York Times. “The tremendous prescience—and good timing—of this production is a  marvel…The script really sings when [Dulack] depicts  how internal politics can warp otherwise well-meaning  people.” —NY Theatre Now. “[An] incisive and often frightening look into the greed and double-dealing of our international affairs, and the casual way in which the lives  of innocent people can be cast aside in the pursuit of power and politics…Dulack marries of the small problems of intimacy with the widescale problems of religious and  political turmoil…THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS  has a fearlessness and unapologetic boldness that feels fresh and necessary, and though "

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ISBN-13 9780822234074
ISBN-10 0822234076

The Road to Damascus is a play written by Tom Dulack and published by Dramatists Play Service .

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