Synopsis: Atomic Farmgirl is
the exciting New York debut of writer
C.Denby Swanson. An adaptation of a memoir by Teri Hein, it follows
growth of a farming community in Hanford, Washington during the
"nuclear" age when many families were stricken with
radiation related illness because of their proximity to nuclear
testing.
It is an "Our Town"
for 2007 when an Imperialistic minded culture of America has
begun to look back at where our nation has come from and who
is owed.
An epic play about community
and the family, Teri Hein's story is the story of a woman who
has grown up in the heartland who has become separated from her
origins and is searching for meaning and belonging. She has not
met and married the high school farm boy that Dolores has. She
has been sophisticated by modern society, she is childless and
she is haunted by the ghost of the land and people she is detached
from.
This is a play about the erosion
of family by a more and more corporate centered culture.
The heart of the play is centered
around Dolores and her struggle to speak out - to make a difference.
What will she do in the face of the dissolution of things we
believe in - put our heads in the sand and wait for it to get
worse or take action and speak out.
This is a play about activism
and our choice to be active in changing our world for the better
or not.
It is a play about inheritance,
about who has inherited what from whom, it is a play about transformation
- how a community/family transforms.
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