PORT ST. LUCIE PEOPLE
To listen to the audio of David McCallum’s 1972
show based on a H.G. Brown play,
go to http://nowstar.us/files/crown-of-rags.mp3
are capable. They want respect. They value privacy.” Brown
hopes to bring the play to Florida audiences. “It was designed
with them in mind.”
Other H.G. Brown plays are available online. Adam’s Ale
was inspired by what he considers to be poorly orchestrated
debates today. Blending quotes with original material,
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas face off, followed by
Frederick Douglass. Other titles are JJ, She Loves St. Pete, and
Poetry Tonight.
Brown says he always has a few ideas “cooking,” such as
chance observations of a young man with palsy he knew in
Chicago and his father’s experience as a B-17 pilot at Needles
Army Airfield near Death Valley.
Not only does Brown love writing plays, he enjoys directing
them as well, most recently in Jupiter and Stuart. And
he isn’t averse to being on stage himself. Last year, Treasure
Coast audiences saw him in both Tuesdays with Morrie and The
Sunshine Boys at A.C.T. Studio Theatre in Stuart. Previously,
he was in Pineapple Playhouse’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest, awarded Best Show in 2016.
Brown’s dream gig would be directing Eugene O’Neill’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Christie. “There’s an ‘old feel’ to
it, fishermen, a waterfront setting. I think Florida audiences
would like it a lot.” E
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Brown and costar
Stuart Mohr
appeared in the
A.C.T. Studio
Theatre’s 2018
presentation of
Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch
Albom. The men
co-directed the
show as well.
“Lately, I like
acting,” says
Brown, “but
when I direct, I
enjoy directing.”
DENNIS O’DONOVAN
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