Drama. It was love at first scene: the West Coast's innovative Theatre SKAM and Sean Dixon were a match made in heaven. AWOL offers up for the first time three of the fruits of their three-year-and-counting union. In "Aerwacol," a couple flees personal tragedy on a manual railroad car headed across the prairies, encountering drifters along the way. "Billy Nothin'" is an existentialist cowboy play in which horse trainer Billy None loses the 'cowboy way' so entirely that his best friends don't even recognize him anymore. And dystopian romance "District of Centuries" tells the story of a suburban innocent seeking his long-lost brother in a downtown housing project designed to crumble so fast that inhabitants come to believe they're hundreds of years old.

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Sean Dixon is a novelist, playwright, and banjo player. He's the author of the novels The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal (Harper, 2009) and THE MANY REVENGES OF KIP FLYNN (Coach House Books, 2011); two novels for young readers, The Feathered Cloak (Key Porter Kids, 2007) and The Winter Drey (Key Porter Books, 2009); and several plays, including those collected in AWOL: THREE PLAYS FOR THEATRE SKAM (Coach House Books, 2002).