The Death of James Connolly by Margaret Avnet - Short, Drama - The story of the last hours of James Connolly's life before he is executed by the British for his involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising.  Placed in the top three of the 2005 Manhattan Short Film Festival's Short Screenplay Competition. 16 pages - pdf, format 8)

Very well-written short, and one that left me intrigued by Connolly.

Hardly do I ever research something after reading a script, but I'm glad I did. I think Connolly is such an intriguing person because he had flaws just like everyone else, but he was admirable for trying to overthrow capitalism.

Congratulations on making the top three, Margaret. Keep writing.

Congrats on making it to the top three, i can see why. This was really well written, and i'm eager to see what you come up with in the future.

Congrats.

Hey Margaret,

I liked it. I was in Ireland earlier this year and remember learning about Connolly so it was good to see someone handle some actual history here.

Couple'o'things.
I don't think the first appearance of names in dialogue needs caps.

I think once you write sift instead of shift.

Mainly, I think you need to specify if Nurse Crawford is English or Irish. I figure Irish cause she is very sympathetic to James but it's unclear if this is a regular hospitol in Dublin or a English military hospitol in which case they may have English nurses. If that is the case I don't know if I completely buy Crawford's feeling towards James.

I would have liked to see a little more history in there (there was enough though) but then you run the line of it just becoming exposition and losing flow. Anyway, I liked it a lot and congratulations.

Good Show.

This was absolutely brilliant.  You had me at the edge my seat through the whole ride.