by Henry Murray

Winner of the Woodward/Newman Drama Award

The world-premiere of this unique, innovative and moving play detailing three simultaneous views of an elderly couple in the twilight of their lives

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Three Views of the Same Object
by Henry Murray

Winner of the 11/12 Woodward/Newman Drama Award

Three Views of the Same Object touchingly tells the story of an elderly couple with a suicide pact... their agreement to end it all "before they lose control of their lives."  How do you know when the right moment presents itself?  What if one is ready to go and the other isn't.  Multiple actors portray the same husband and wife as we see three simultaneous views of how this pact will play out.

"I selected Three Views of the Same Object as the best of hundreds of dramas from all over the globe because it exemplifies both the current value of theatre and the art form’s future potential," explains Producing Artistic Director Chad Rabinovitz.

"Its unique theatricality combined with masterful language brings two characters together (and apart) in such an engaging way that I’ve not seen in the countless plays that have come across my desk in the past few years.  Henry Murray brings an original look to an unquestionably powerful subject that is certain to move audiences of all kinds."

Three Views of the Same Object began with a real incident when Murray stopped to help an elderly woman who had fallen beside her curbside mailbox. As he walked her to her house, the front door opened and her husband appeared in a wheelchair, trapped by the threshold. She called out, "Honey, I fell down. And can you believe it, I'm not even drunk." Three Views is about aging in America, enduring love, and the choices we make that determine our fate.

Three Views of the Same Object was chosen as the best of the best from hundreds of submissions from around the world as part of its Woodward/Newman Drama Competition, named after two of the greatest actors of our time, Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman and sponsored by Newman’s Own Foundation.  The theatre receives hundreds of submissions of plays from around the globe and presents the best new drama in the world with a prize of $3,000 and a full production as part of the BPP’s Mainstage season.  The winner of the 2011-12 contest will be selected and announced mid-June.

Chosen out of 350 submissions from across the globe, this play stood out as the best of the best.  The BPP asked Murray about his reaction to winning the first ever Woodward/Newman Drama Award.

"I was both thrilled and humbled to learn I had won this award," says Murray. "I first saw Ms. Woodward's work in The Three Faces of Eve at a drive-in movie in rural Virginia and experienced my first case of being star-struck."

Henry Murray (Playwright) is the author of numerous poems and stories, a novel, four full-length plays and a number of short plays including Down For The Count, a finalist for The Heideman Award at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. Henry’s play, Treefall, was named one of the ten best plays of 2009 by the LA Weekly and is published and available from Dramatists Play Service. Henry’s play Monkey Adored, which received a reading at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival and a week-long workshop at DC’s The Inkwell, is scheduled for production at Rogue Machine Theatre in September of 2011. Henry is a member of the Actors Studio West Playwrights Unit, The Dramatist Guild of America, The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and is Dramaturge at Rogue Machine Theatre.