In Her Mother's Image - Softcover

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Cecilia Gaerlan is a Bay Area playwright based in Berkeley, California. She received an Honorable Mention in the Stage Play Script Category of the Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition in 2005 for "The Hand of God" (about St. Francis of Assisi) and in 2010 for "Magnus Laurent" (Lorenzo the Magnificent). She is a recipient of a Theatre Bay Area CASH Award in 2002 for her play, Brilliance within the Darkness, about the blind Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo (composer of the guitar concierto Concierto de Aranjuez). She is the author of several other plays on a wide variety of topics such as the United Nations (commissioned by City College of San Francisco for the U.N.'s 50th anniversary), child prostitution, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, etc. Her latest play, Magnus Laurent, is about the Florentine ruler, Lorenzo de Medici and the Pazzi conspiracy set in renaissance Italy during a period of political, religious and moral upheaval.