Award-winning play based on Isabel Allende's landmark novel charts the complex social and political lives of three generations of a family in an un-named country in Latin America. The conflicted rags to riches rise of a stubborn patriarch is contrasted with the interior and exterior worlds of a grandmother, mother and daughter growing up in the shadow of violence.
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2009, Main Street Theatre, Houston Texas
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TheatreForum Issue No. 36
1060-5320 (ISSN)
Adaptation of Isabel Allende's novel; English language version (in draft prior to Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Theatre Center) in international theatre journal TheatreForum.
Adaptation of Isabel Allende's novel; English language version (in draft prior to Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Theatre Center) in international theatre journal TheatreForum.
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This fictional story of a motivational speaker who is pushed in front of a bus in a Random Act of violence explores issues of fate, the meaning behind suffering, love and our faith in cultural gurus. The play asks: how would this cynical wounded healer and her world of skeptics and seekers respond? Characters range from 90 year old Sarah, the biblical mother of the Jewish people, to 19 year old Jen, a street kid with interesting insight into randomness.
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Four female panelists come together to debate whether women should disregard and leave religion behind, or continue to practice their spiritual practices. The play cracks open intersectionality to analyze the ways in which organized religion supports, or breaks down women's freedoms and rights. In conversations of religion and feminism, is it possible to live in a world where we as humans can respect each other's beliefs rather than try to win some sort of religious war?
