“I wanted to travel everyplace on your body. Even the places you'd never been. Love can make you feel so changed you think the world is changed. ”
In the Heart of America
By Naomi Wallace
Directed by Amanda Friou, 3rd year MFA director
March 6 - 17, 2019
Previews March 2 & 5
Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse, University of Washington
A young Palestinian-American woman’s quest to learn what happened to her brother, Remzi, who lost his life in the first Gulf War, leads her to a Kentuckian soldier named Craver. Through a poetic web of time leaps and apparitions, we watch the two men fall in love as she unravels the mystery. Woven into that story, the ghost of a Vietnamese mother, Lue Ming, seeks justice for her infant daughter, a victim of the 1968 massacre at My Lai. Obie Award-winning Playwright Naomi Wallace, known for her signature blend of politics, eroticism, and lyricism, here masterfully rings the gong of histories that still reverberate through our national body.
Content Advisory: This show contains violence, extensive derogatory language and racial slurs, sexual content, weapons, gun sounds, smoke, and strobe. It is recommended for mature audiences only.
Artists
| Remzi | Adrian Tafesh (3rd year PATP) |
| Fairouz | Tricia Castañeda-Gonzales (3rd year PATP) |
| Lue Ming | Asialani Holman (1st year PATP) |
| Craver | Jon Díaz (1st year PATP) |
| Boxler | Greg Lyle-Newton (Guest actor) |
| Set Designer | Shin-yi Lin (3rd year MFA designer) |
| Lighting Designer | Chun Yen Huang (2nd year MFA designer) |
| Costume Designer | Jordan Fell (3rd year MFA designer) |
| Sound Designer | Kai Scheer (undergraduate Drama major) |
| Stage Manager | Elliot Schumacher |