Flight Lines & Crossings

A terrorist, an attractive woman in her thirties, is being tried for complicity in a bank hold-up and the resulting murder of a guard

The play, which takes place in the aging couple's living room, and in the mind of Anthony, examines such complex issues as justice versus individual compassion, and the nature of radicalism, in a surprisingly simple, affecting story (M1,F2)

First presented by the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville, as part of its noted Shorts Festival. A timely and powerful portrait of a quiet older man who, upon being selected as a juror in a terrorist's trial, is forced to take a searching look at himself, his wife, and the society in which he lives

Crossings ~ The play begins in postwar Germany with a father telling his young daughter the old and familiar story of his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp

In ensuing scenes, the daughter grows up and begins to question her father's passive behavior during the war. Though he tries to defend his actions as a rational response to the time and place he lived, his daughter remains skeptical

It is only when the daughter realizes her own vulnerability to the easy habit of indifference, in present-day America, that she truly begins to understand her father (M1,F2)

A probing and compassionate look at the constantly changing relationship between a German musician who lived through the Second World War in Nazi Germany, and his daughter who emigrates to the United States to become a political activist