The Coyote Trilogy

The plays of the Coyte Trilogy ("Coyote," "Cyberpunk Opera," and "Dub for Babylon") had their origins in the LA Coffeehouses of the late 1980's. The three intertwined, weirdly-prophetic plays presage the development of virtual living, sentient computers, and the general nature of who you are and what it means to be human in an increasingly dehumanizing world. "Coyote"-Five characters: a Hollywood producer, an angry vet, a dreamer, a girl with no memories, and a girl full of illusions, navigate the increasingly hostile machine of Los Angeles in the 1980's, attended by the ever-present figure of the trickster god, Coyote. "Cyberpunk Opera"--It's 2026, and just who ARE you anyway? In a world peopled by master programmers, intelligent computers, sentient avatars, cops and religious wackos and hackers and cybergeeks, the concept of what is "real" and what is "human" can get more than a bit blurry, especially when love is thrown into the mix. "Dub For Babylon"--In a repressive future, in a world increasingly fragmented by religion, wealth, and identity, the followers of the Mad Prophet Verlaine hatch a scheme to buy the denizens of both the real and virtual worlds a little patch of freedom, and maybe, just maybe, a future we can all live with.