From the festival’s artistic director Peggy McKowen to the prop person to the attentive audiences.” You’re surrounded by a small army who help at every turn, just like antibodies going to the sight of a wound. “Redeemed” is her fourth world premiere at CATF, and according to the New Jersey-based playwright, “Shepherdstown is a great place to try new stuff. Hutchinson later taught playwriting workshops at juvenile detention facilities, and worked with a women’s prison association as a mentor. I’m pretty sure he was looking for a soft place to land when he got out. In imagining the prison visits, Hutchison, who identifies as bisexual, had some real-life experience to go on: “When I was a kid, my mom became pen pals with a guy in prison. Was she feeling, hopeful, cynical, angry? A singular emotion ultimately prevailed, but telling would reveal too much. The playwright knew the ending would be dependent on her mood at the time. I just have to go live my life and in the course of living my life I will stumble on a solution and that’s exactly what happened.” I try not to think about that as writer’s block. “It was flowing easily to a point and then I had to stop. “When I began the play, I wasn’t sure how it would end,” explains Hutchinson, 43. Whether the convicted killer is sincere or simply eager to be released is unclear. Originally conceived as a radio drama, the compelling two hander is set in the visiting room of a high security prison where Asian American Claire (Elizabeth Sun) meets with allegedly repentant Trevor (Doug Harris), the white man who murdered her gay brother when he heard him speaking Chinese in line at an ATM.
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