NAATCO, today announced that the company has commissioned five Asian American Playwrights, all women, to write monologues for characters no younger than 60-years-old. Each monologue will be at least 30 minutes long, and all five will be performed together as a piece entitled Out of Time. The playwrights, Asian American women, are Jaclyn Backhaus, Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka, and Anna Moench.
The idea was conceived and will be directed by Les Waters for NAATCO. NAATCO will develop the monologues during this time of lockdown, with the goal of having them ready for live performance as soon as theatres re-open.
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Steal Her Bones tells the story of Diana, a renowned evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist She publicly conducts debates with creationists about things like the age of the earth and intelligent design, explains Thomas Gibbons, InterAct s Playwright-in-Residence.
Diana is scheduled to debate a theologian named Martin but just before the debate, she s diagnosed with cancer and is forced to cancel. After Diana dies, Martin publishes an essay, in which he says that they had their debate in private, Gibbons says, he believes that she came to accept God in her final days.
There s a third character in the play, Diana s wife Ellen, who challenges Martin s story and says there was no deathbed conversation. That leads to one of the play s primary philosophical questions.
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