co-authored with Adam Koplan for Flying Carpet Theatre Company

A medical drama with bluegrass and tap dancing, in two acts.  4 M / 1 F

Inspired by Henrik Ibsen's classic Enemy of the People, pits a crusading doctor against an entourage of snake oil salesmen.

It’s October, 1918, and Dr. Claudia Hill is wrestling with how best to address an impending influenza epidemic in the small Georgia town of Norwich. Public health seems at odds with the town's economic interests as civic leaders debate shutting down all public gatherings—including the popular and lucrative arrival of Dr. Eggerton’s Traveling Medicine Show. As her attempts to impose a quarantine are usurped at every turn by the wily Dr. Eggerton, Dr. Hill realizes that she must stand alone to save the town.

Interwoven throughout the realistic play are scenes from the period medicine show, complete with tap dance, old time melodrama, bluegrass music, and vaudevillian comedy.
 

"If you put your plastic on the pallet and buy your way into “The Medicine Showdown,” your spirits will rise, your bowels will regularize, your appetite will filibusterize, your marriage will carnalize, and you’ll have won the brass ring prize!"

-Brad Rudy, Atlanta Theatre Buzz 

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