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Samara Weiss

Samara Weiss is a playwright and screenwriter. Full-length plays include Dirt, Aleph Mem Tav, Foreign Wars, Lines in Code, and AK-47 Sing-Along; short plays include The Moral of the Story and In Ireland They Speak Irish; In Cornwall They Speak Cornish (Red Bull Short New Plays, 2018). Member of the NYU Humanities Initiative Lucrece Project Working Group, 2018 Catwalk Resident, and New Georges Affiliated Artist. MFA Columbia.

Sept/Oct 2019

Lucrece from the Dark

By Samara Weiss

CHARACTERS LUCRECE SEXTUS TARQUIN, her rapist COLLATINE, her husband BRUTUS, her husband’s friend Everyone is always on stage. 1. LUCRECE in the dark. She clicks her tongue, sighs. She goes […]