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Readers' Theater
Collaborative Presents the 2007-2008 series
September 15, 2007
10:00 in the morning
Enemies of the State, Ron Pullins, a play
At the Actor's Studio of Newburyport
Admission, suggested donation
Directed by
Bonnie Jean Wilbur
with
Elizabeth Duff
Missy Chabot
Steve Haley
Paul Wann
ENEMIES OF THE STATE deals with two histories: the abduction, torture and "disappearances" that occurred in Argentina in the 1970s and the secrecy, shame and loss of women in that period from 1945 to 1972 who gave their children up to adoption and whose children thus "disappeared".
Both histories are political narratives that shaped people’s lives through secret suffering.Outline
Prone to sudden disappearances. Morgan’s wife Tizzy fails to make the stop at the Laundromat one day and continues instead to the home of a dear friend Rose who lives with her husband a hundred miles away. She stays there and a week later her husband finally finds her and joins them. The play opens on his arrival.
Willing to sacrifice much to bring their lives back to normal, Morgan has missed any knowledge of Tizzy’s secret suffering. Not until the husband of her best friend shares his own, well-kept secrets does she feel free to reveal her own which has kept her life frozen for thirty years.For a sample scene from this play in pdf format, click here.