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POETIC LICENSE by Jack Canfora

directed by Evan Bergman

FEATURING: John Little, Anna O'Donoghue, Nancy Ringham, and Douglas Scott Sorenson as Edmund

A Pulitzer Prize winning poet is confronted by a dark secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy both his career and his family. This World Premiere drama about greed, ambition and madness raises confounding questions about morality in one's personal life versus one's artistic life, and how transgressions relegated to memory arise unexpectedly to exact accountability.

New Jersey Repertory Company

179 Broadway, Long Branch, New Jersey

"Douglas Scott Sorenson is particularly convincing as Edmund. It is a most difficult role because of the conflicting strains in his behavior. Sorenson manages to strike notes of youthful impetuousness which feel real and electric." -- Bob Rendell, Talkin' Broadway

"Sorenson is gallant in the role of the scholar who spills out the final shocking denouement." -- Robert L. Daniels, Variety

"Edmund is the most compelling role, and Douglas Scott Sorenson wrings quite a bit out of it." -- Peter Filichia, The Star Ledger

"...inherent tensions are experetly conveyed by (Bergman's) four gifted and well-cast actors...(with) Douglas Scott Sorenson as the multitalented boyfriend." -- Stephen Wells, The New York Times

"Sorenson is like an improvising musician calling a sudden chord change with the careful detonation of a strategically placed F-bomb. We see a shadow come across his face, and feel the smile retreat from ours, as he abruptly drops the good-guy persona of the opening sequence. We (then) enter a strange and alien territory with the actor as our not-so-comforting guide." -- Tom Cheesek, Asbury Park Press

"Douglas Scott Sorenson as Edmund, the boyfriend, who in maintaining a combination of intensity and duplicity throughout, carries the story forward outstandingly" -- Milt Bernstein, The Link News

"Ms. O'donoghue and Mr. Sorenson work well together. They create a believable Gen Y couple, nervous over facing Katherine's parents." -- Philip Dorian, The Two River Times