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ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE by David Selzer © 2008
Posted by David Selzer in Screenplays on September 13th, 2010
ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a tragi-comedy of errors. The screenplay explores the parallel lives of two people born on the same day in 1953 on opposite sides of the Atlantic, focussing on key episodes in their lives from 1961 to 2002. The story, which takes its title from a line in W H Auden’s poem, ‘The Fall of Rome’, charts their lives from the ages of 8 to 50 and is set against a backdrop of the decline and fall of empires.
Annie from Liverpool and Dwight from Daytona grow up and begin their respective careers in the arts and the military – Annie becoming an acclaimed documentary and fashion photographer and Dwight a casualty of the Vietnam war eventually selling oranges by the roadside in Portugal. Their paths cross for the first time in Greece, when they are 27. Their lives become inextricably linked, not least through 9/11, though they never actually meet again until they are 50.
You can download this full length screenplay as a pdf: ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE
'A Woman Killed With Kindness', 'Rock Around The Clock', 'See You Later Alligator', 'The Cherry Orchard', 'The Fall of Rome', Afghanistan, Algarve, Alton, Alvor, Arabic, Athens, Baghdad, Baragwanath, Bill Haley, Blundellsands, Brooklyn Heights, Cahokia, caliphate, Cape St Vincent, Chicago, Daytona, Delphi, Derby Road, diner, East St Louis, empires, Epidaurus, Falkner Street, Fortelaiza de Sagres, Hardman Street, Jimi Hendrix, Lime Street, Liverpool, Mafia, Moors, Moscow, Mycenae, New York, Norman Rockwell, Olympia, Orlando, Osama Bin Laden, Renshaw Street, Saracens, Scotland Road, Serpentine Road, Sheremetevo, Soweto, Sparrow Hills, St Louis, Stanley Road, Tate, The Acropolis, Toxteth Riots, tragi-comedy of errors, Twin Towers, Vietnam, Virgin Mary, W.H.Auden, West Virginia
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