It's 1961. Fidel has turned Havana upside down. Veronica's family has fled the country, leaving her behind to find a new family. Pregnant and ready to participate in whatever Fidel throws her way, she is not fully prepared for everything the revolution has in store. ILLUMINATING VERONICA is a play about betrayal and hope that looks at Castro's Cuba, not as a demonic state, nor as a perfect paradise, but as a work in progress.
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1999, South Coast Repertory, California
2009
Broadway Play Publishing Inc
9780881454109
Included in Plays from South Coast Repertory, Hispanic Playwrights Project Anthology
Included in Plays from South Coast Repertory, Hispanic Playwrights Project Anthology
The theatrical journey into the deep, dark and delirious woods of Wajdi Mouawad's Forests begins with a real mind-boggler: How did a missing skull fragment from a woman murdered in a Nazi concentration camp end up embedded in the brain of a recently deceased Québécoise? Over the course of the play, the daughter of deceased Aimée Lambert, 16-year-old Loup, searches for an answer to this question with the help of her trusty paleontologist guide, Douglas Dupontel.
Realistic
A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, an Moroccan graduate student, is left to uncover his family secret that brought them to Israel in the first place. Since Eitan’s parents erupted at a Passover meal when they realized Wahida was not Jewish, he has harboured a suspicion about his heritage that, if true, could change everything. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict hits close to home as his straight-laced family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities.
