"Why We Must Die So Young" by William Gebby
Join us for the Indianapolis Premiere of a new play!
"During the darkest days of WWII, a handful of German university students—armed with a typewriter, a hand-cranked duplicating machine, and courage—distributed thousands of anti-Nazi leaflets and worked toward unifying resistance across Germany. Their ultimate goal: remove Hitler from power. Their name: The White Rose."
Agape is excited to present the inaugural production of Why We Must Die So Young, written and directed by William Gebby. This exciting new work captures the history of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi movement in 1940s Germany. This will be the inaugural production in Indianapolis.
SHOW DATES:
March 7th - 9th & March 14th - 16th
LOCATION:
Theater at the Fort in Lawrence
Production
Writer & Director: William Gebby
William Gebby is a playwright/playmaker who is gradually turning
screenwriter/filmmaker. His one-act play, INCENSE FOR SHIVA, was a winner of Indiana-University Purdue-University-Fort Wayne's Indiana Voices Competition in 1997.His full-length play, A LYNCHING IN SOUTHERN INDIANA, played to
critical and popular acclaim at Theatre On The Square (Indpls.) in 1998.
And his ten-minute play, 1918, was produced by Theatre Studio Inc. (NYC) in 1999. Close to a half-dozen of his plays have received public readings
by The Indiana Theatre Association and The Algonquin Project.
From 2002-03, he served as publicity director, stage manager,
assistant director, and producer at Center Stage Productions
(Indpls.). In 2003, he founded Inklings Theatre which produced three of his
plays: THE CONFESSIONAL, THE GERANIUM, and A PRAYER FOR THE
DEAD (2004). In 2007, his play, WAR TO END ALL WARS, was featured as part ofThe Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival. He received a Basile Theatre Fellowship the same year. In 2008, his screenplay, DOGWOOD AND SYCAMORE, was a finalist in The Kairos Prize Screenwriting Competition; his monologue, THE RIGHT NOT TO TAKE ME SERIOUSLY, was a winner in the STAGE THIS! Playwriting Competition; and his short film, EXORCISING THE DEMON, won honorable mention in The 48 Hour Film Project
(Indpls.). His short play, THE LOVE POETRY OF KARL MARX, was featured as part of Bloomington Playwrights Project Bloomingplays Festival in May 2009.His screenplay, NORTH STAR, was the Grand Prize Winner of The
KAIROS SCREENWRITING COMPETITION in February 2018.
A lifelong Hoosier, he lives in Indianapolis.
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