![]() | Lidless The third winner of the Yale Drama Series competition for emerging playwrights--a haunting and provocative imagining of the reunion, years later, of a Guantánamo detainee and the female interrogator who tortured him But Alice doesn't remember Bashir; a PTSD pill trial she participated in while in the army has left her without any memory of her time there. It is only when her inquisitive fourteen-year-old daughter begins her own investigation that the fragile peace of mind that Alice's drug-induced oblivion enabled begins to falter. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's powerful drama asks important and difficult questions: Is guilt a necessary form of moral reckoning, or is it an obstacle to be overcome? Will the price of our national political amnesia be paid only by the next generation--the daughters and sons who were never there? Upon awarding the prize, David Hare wrote, "We admired the play because--although it was stylishly written, although the governing metaphor and basic realism were held in a fine balance--it also recalled the political urgency which had propelled a previous generation of writers into the theatre in the first place." Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig holds an MFA from the James Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin. She was raised in Taipei, Okinawa, Virginia, and Beijing. |
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