The Plays of Thomas F. Rogers

The Plays of Thomas F. Rogers Volume 1: Perestroika and Glasnost Thomas F. Rogers is a prominent Playwright and former Professor of the Russian language, now retired. Having lived in the U.S. and in Russia, his plays have made the mystery and controversy of "The Red East" singularly accessible His plays, "Charades," "Crime and Punishment," "God's Fools," "The Idiot," and "The Second Priest," gathered in one volume for the first time, deal with Russia, Russians, and The U.S.S.R, their relations with other countries as well as internally, and focus on the transition into and out of Communism. Taut, political and ideological dramas, all, they enlighten the Human condition, in thoughtful and lively stage adaptations. Now arranged in this one volume, they are available for study and perusal by Professors, Scholars, and Students, Producers, Directors and Actors, who will grow to appreciate the keen mind and wit of Thomas F. Rogers. With an Introduction by Bob Nelson, Professor of Theatre at the University of Utah.
About the Author: A former director of the BYU Honors Program, Thomas F. Rogers was a professor of Russian language and literature at Brigham Young University, now retired, and the author of more than a dozen plays, many on Mormon subjects. He directed the premiere productions of Robert Vincek's For the Lions to Win, Thom Duncan's Matters of the Heart and Eric Samuselsen's Accommodations as well as States-side productions of Huebener. He's also directed Chekhov's The Three Sisters (in German) for Deutsches Teater Salt Lake City and Synge's Playboy of the Western World, Pirandello's It Is So If You Think So and Pinter's The Caretaker for the BYU Department of Theatre. His latest published stories appeared in the Summer 1991 issue of Dialogue (receiving an annual Dialogue fiction award) and in the collection Christmas for the World. Rogers was once the editor of Encyclia, journal of the Utah Academy, and author of a critical monograph, Myth and Symbol in Soviet Fiction (The Edwin Mellen Press). He studied at the Yale School of Drama and holds degrees from the University of Utah, Yale, and Georgetown. He has also studied theater in Poland and Russian at Moscow State University and taught at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Utah. Rogers' theatrical activity includes acting and directing, in addition to writing plays. He has traveled and lived extensively in Russia, Eastern Europe, and India. He and his wife Merriam are the parents of seven children, thirty-eight grandchildren and, so far, three great-grand-children. They reside in Bountiful, Utah.