ISBN #1-933159-057

Have you read Bramm's one acts with JAC, Big Ball or Islands of Repair?

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The Setting
Leo Oscar’s backyard, 4907 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. It is late morning, afternoon an early evening, September, 1963.

Synopsis
In his backyard, Leo Oscar is the United States of America. Naïve, petulant and ultimately violent. Leo is at the center of our national obsession—the search for identity. He battles between idealism and a desire for fame. The television, the media, is his ultimate confirmation.

The play is set in New Orleans, September of 1963, in and out of Leo Oscar’s mind. He has managed to create a political commotion around himself that lands him a shot on a local TV talk show. It is the day the show airs, and it has become Leo’s passion—his big break. However, Leo’s story is complicated by a television that won’t work, the arrival of some unexpected house guests, and the return of an old friend. Leo is frustrated and humiliated until it is inevitable that he lashes out.

While the events in this play may closely resemble the real life Lee Harvey Oswald, this is fiction. The play does not address or rebut any particular conspiracy, but instead explores the psychological landscape of a young American man, driven to extremely desperate actions.

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“A complicated, fascinating work.”
- Martin Denton, nytheatre.com

Author Biography
Leslie Bramm’s plays have been produced all over the U.S. and in New York City at The Kraine, Currican, Theatre Off Park, Todo Con Nada, The Theotorium, The Lucille Lortel, The Beckett  and CBGBS 313.

He is a recipient of a Stanley Drama Award (Oswald’s Backyard), a Tennessee Williams Award (Big Ball) and The Paul. T. Nolan Award (Islands of Repair)  Islands of Repair was also read as a radio play on NPR-WJFF. Big Ball was a finalist in the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwriting Competition, while A.B.C. (or the man in the red suit) was shot as an indie film by Pick UP Sticks Productions. It was also banned from performance by an upstate SUNY.  Bramm’s 9/11 duo Lovers Leapt and The Uncaring Dog are part of an Oxford doctoral dissertation.

Bramm is a five time Fringenyc vet and wrote 23 gripe columns for Insight for Playwrights. He co-authored the screen play This is Not Here (about John Lennon) with Kevin Corrigan. He was the lead singer and played guitar for Diz Dam. Bramm is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the Present Company’s “Pool”.