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Semper Fi

Michael Brady

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Description

In October 1983 a truck filled with explosives blew up in a Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 242 soldiers. SEMPER FI explores the aftermath of that terrorist attack on the Marine Lt Colonel who was in charge.

Production Info

Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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Reviews

Press Quotes

“Every once in a while, a script comes along that’s so articulate, so well crafted, so free of cliches, you want to cry because they aren’t all like that. Michael Brady’s SEMPER FI is such a script …” —⁠Mary Shen Barnidge, Chicago Reader

“… Michael Brady’s fine new play SEMPER FI … a drama dealing with a Marine Lt Colonel caught between a rock and a hard place — he was put in charge of the Marine unit in Beirut right before it was bombed by the terrorist truck in 1983. Ironically, he had pleaded for tighter security before this happened, but was refused. Now it appears he’ll be the scapegoat. Brady creates characters you’ll really care about …” —⁠Mary Ann Nichols, WCRB-FM

“… blind faith is the subject of Michael Brady’s drama SEMPER FI, about the October 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut … The play is the dramatic equivalent of the truck bomb that destroyed the embassy … The drama explodes with the emotional intensity of the event that took more than two hundred American lives …” —⁠Alicia MacArthur, The Salem Evening News

About the Author

Author

  • Michael Brady

    Michael created Berkshire Voices, Great Barrington Public Theater's ongoing workshop for Berkshire area playwrights. His play REUNION marked the 2025 launch of Stepping Up: Plays in Development, the theater's program of staged readings. Also with Great Barrington Public: readings of THE GROUP and QUEEN OF THE SEA. Barrington Stage Company's 10x10 New Play Festival produced his plays PIPELINE and IF I GO FIRST. Other stage works include TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY, developed by Ensemble Studio Theatre and produced as a film by Sony Pictures; SARA, Equity Library Theatre at Lincoln Center; SEMPER FI, Gloucester Stage Company, HARD TIMES, Main Street Stage, North Adams; and TWO BEARS BLINKING, New Theatre, Miami. Michael is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. His published works are available from Broadway Play Publishing.

About the Book

Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 6/1/1988
Pages 60
ISBN 9780881450620

Special Notes

Special Notes

Licensees are required to include the original stage producers credits in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:

Originally produced by Gloucester Stage Company, MA

The following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
Semper Fi is produced
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
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