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Drama: Plays for Page or Stage
Christine Benvenuto
She Will Hold Me
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Tagline: Professor Alan and student Cody meet during his usual office hour, but their conversation isn’t a typical teacher-student exchange.
Synopsis: Alan desperately tries to control the situation, even turn it to his advantage, when his student and sometime lover, Cody, arrives in his office with startling news. But only succeeds in discovering how little he knows about Cody or himself.
About the playwright:
Christine Benvenuto’s plays have been performed at Boston Theater Marathon, International Human Rights Art Festival and Sixth Festival NYC, The Braid LA, Clamour Theater Florida, Fern Street Festival Connecticut, LAVA Center Western Massachusetts and online. A play is available as a podcast from Onstage/Offstage; another was performed by Orpheus Theatre Company, Lancaster, PA and included in the anthology Borderless Thalia, and monologues are forthcoming in the anthologies Frozen Women/Flowing Thoughts from Venus Theatre, The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2024. She is the author of two books from St. Martin’s Press, and stories and essays that appear in many newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She has been selected as a 2024 member of New Perspective Theatre’s Women’s Work cohort, NYC, and is a recipient of a 2024 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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