Swallow: (First Corinthians)

The plays focus on youth (too little experience) and old age (too much experience: questions of forgiveness, integrity of memory, store of energy). They spring from my experiences engaging with those affected by economic warfare, addiction, and genocidal violence, nationally and internationally. The writing pairs with a long-time searching-through of contemplative pedagogy: the uses of silence, witness, gratitude and patience in the creative process. The setting is global and contemporary, in passion with the friable nature of social systems challenged by the manufacture of exiles and refugees, by totalitarian persecutions, and by erosions in a baseline of trust.