Michael Bettencourt is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His A QUESTION OF COLOR won an Ostrander award in Memphis (TN) for Best Original Script in July 2005. IN THE FORT chosen was a Selected Script by Inner Voices. In 2004 he won Boston Theatre Works' BTW Unbound 2004 competition with his full-length ESQUINA. He won the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo with his play A QUESTION OF COLOR. He has also won the Eric Bentley New Play Competition at The New Phoenix Theatre in Buffalo with TRANSLATION and the PlayWorks 2001 competition of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for A QUESTION OF COLOR. His children's play, MACBETH'S CHILDREN, won the AATE 2003-2004 Unpublished Playreading Project and the Sonoma County Repertory's Best Youth Play award in September 2002, and his short play CLICK won Best Play in the Turnip Theatre's 7th Annual 15-Minute Play Festival (April 2001). DANCING AT THE REVOLUTION (about Emma Goldman) has been produced by Playwrights Forum in Memphis (August 2001) and the Theatre Cooperative in Somerville, MA (November 2001). He is a member of Scene4, an online community of theatre professionals, for which he writes a monthly column (http://www.scene4.com). He has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. All of Michael's scripts are at http://www.m-bettencourt.com As always, thanks to his "prime mate," Maria Beatriz.

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Even though you walk straight, eyes up, you slink.
Those eyes take in each scheme played out in doors
and shops and bars and swear they're here to drink
in only what the locals do. No whores
for you, they say. And then you slip inside,
slip the charon one buck for four quarters,
slip down the styx hued red, find a door, then slide
into darkness streaked with sperm - such waters
of life - and slip the coins off waiting eyes.
The ruck of skins makes juices jump; such raw
denial of love is free enterprise,
the rule shucked off, brief taste of the outlaw.
When you leav...

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