What We Were Thinking Of: Table of Contents
A Play in Two Acts
Across a historical panorama of the American scene, What We Were Thinking Of offers a drama of political and generational conflict played out against the backdrop of the impending Gulf War. It follows David Rich, ex-60s radical and renowned professor of literature, careening through a mid-life memory that excavates the moral choices and consciences of aging cold warriors versus their counter-culture adversaries and his own personal failings. When his one-time best friend, Bud, publishes newspaper memoirs of a famous 1971 campus bombing that seem to implicate him, David faces his reckoning.
Winner, Los Angeles Scriptwriters Network Screenplay Competition
Second Prize, Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition.
► A “mature, resonant and emotional script that showed the seeds of mastery” — Jeff Arch, Oscar-nominated screenwriter for Sleepless in Seattle. ◄
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Introduction (May 31, 2025)
Act 1
“The words and the things we do” (June7, 2025)