Mountain - The Journey of Justice Douglas

Playing against the other two actors, who enact a multitude of memories (e.g., FDR, Nixon, Brandeis, his own parents, wives and children), Douglas struggles to find the meaning of his life

With the nation now moving in a direction antithetical to his own liberal passions, was his life meaningless?

Were the sacrifices - his fight against poverty and sickness as a youth, his failures as husband and father-worth making?

How does one's public life balance against the private one?

The play ends with a passionate reaffirmation of the power of courage over fear, of the individual over the technological State

An exploration and celebration of the life of William O. Douglas (1898-1980). Beginning and ending on the last day of his life, the play spans his eighty-one years

As Justice of the Supreme Court where he was defender of civil liberties, personal privacy and the wilderness, as chairman of the SEC fighting a corrupt Wall Street, professor at Yale

Along with his four marriages, his mountain climbing and globetrotting through such lands as Iran and the Himalayas, and his childhood in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State

The issues are as timely as this morning's headlines

"Powerful, thought-provokingan absorbing theatrical event always lively, dramatic, highly personal. The construction of the play is artful indeedthe effect is exhilarating" ~ NY Magazine

"The play is stirringremarkable in its ability to juggle ideas, biographical information, great humor and poignant scenes" ~ The Daily News

"Moutain is worth the climb. I recommend it" ~ NY Post