In Jeff Helgeson’s plays,
plot is a secondary element built around a major theme in the attempt to emphasize ideas and implications.

Helgeson seeks to challenge values, engender ideas, and engage an audience.

 

Plays by Jeff Helgeson

Ithaca

The Outcasts of  Poker Flat
Adaption

The Ministry of Truth
George Orwell in 1984

Menage a Trois

Stalemate

Self-Portrait

Solitaire

In His Own Image

Sins Of The Father

Fall From Grace

Time & Tide

Sign Of The Times

Make It New

Glass Houses

Graces

Duets

From a Different Place

In The Moment

Full Circle

Ulterior Motives

Liberty & Justice

Censure

W.M.D

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In Jeff Helgeson’s plays, the plot is a secondary element, built around a major theme in the playwright’s attempt to emphasize ideas and implications.

Helgeson prefers works that go beyond what might be termed the “dominant narrative mode” in an attempt to challenge values, engender ideas, and engage an audience.

 

Plays by Jeff Helgeson

Ithaca

The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Adaption

The Ministry of Truth
George Orwell in 1984

Menage a Trois

Stalemate

Self-Portrait

Solitaire

In His Own Image

Sins Of The Father

Fall From Grace

Time & Tide

Sign Of The Times

Make It New

Glass Houses

Graces

Duets

From a Different Place

In The Moment

Full Circle

Ulterior Motives

Liberty & Justice

Censure

W.M.D

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