The Persistence of Memory and Other Plays

Publisher Marketing: Always, the past endures... Twenty years ago, Mark David Major (author of Mars Rising) wrote three plays in a burst of creative activity over a three-year period. The first of these plays, The Persistence of Memory, premiered during a short, successful run at a historic St. Louis area theatre in May 1992. Since then, these plays have been waiting to be revisited by the author and discovered by a new generation of readers and patrons of the theatre. For the first time, The Persistence of Memory, The Truth of Glances, and Song of My Childhood are presented here in print, updated and revised by the author, including production photographs from the 1992 run of The Persistence of Memory at the Historic Miner's Institute Theatre. This edition also includes prefaces written by the lead actors of the original cast for The Persistence of Memory and a new Introduction by the playwright reflecting on the creative genesis and literary influences of the plays, challenges and opportunities during the 1992 production, and the rationale for specific revisions and updates to the plays some twenty years later. The plays embody the didactic nature of Generation X at its best and worst on the themes of romantic love and emotional honesty. It is characterized by a purity of perspective tinted with a cynicism wise beyond its years and a raw emotionalism carefully veiled under a mask of social indifference. These plays give voice to an entire generation, the children of a revolution... Contributor Bio:  Major, Mark David About THE AUTHOR Mark David Major, AICP is the author of Poor Richard, AN Almanac for Architects and Planners. He is an urban planner with more than 20 years of experience, a certified planner of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) since 2003, member of the American Planning Association (APA), former Chair of the First Coast APA and member of the Executive Committee for APA Florida. He previously worked for U. S. national home builder Pulte Homes/Del Webb and Nassau County, Florida as a Senior Planner. He is a former Director of Space Syntax Limited, an urban design and planning consulting firm in London, England, where he was a design consultant to Foster & Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, Zaha M. Hadid Architects, London Metropolitan Police, and the British Government as well as many others. Mark was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived in London for 8 years where he was a Lecturer and Course Director in the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning at University College London where he founded the International Space Syntax Symposia and coedited the First International Space Syntax Symposium Proceedings. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Florida, Florida State University, Florida Atlantic University, University of Texas, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Architectural Association in London, University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, Politecnico di Milano in Italy, and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He has a Master of Science in Architecture from University College London, and Bachelors of Arts in Design (Architecture) and History from Clemson University in South Carolina. Poor Richard, ANOTHER Almanac for Architects and Planners is his tenth book. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida.