Triumph of love over hate
February 16 – March 3, 2024
7:30 PM — February 16, 17, 23, 24, and March 1 & 2
2:00 PM — February 18, 25, and March 2 & 3
Auditions: December 4 & 5
A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane’s wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim’s families. The Women of Lockerbie is loosely inspired by a true story, although the characters and situations in the play are purely fictional.
Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection.
Reviews
“A moving, thoughtful exploration of how grief changes over time.” — The New Yorker
“…catches the grim mood [of a terrorist attack] better than anything I’ve yet seen on the subject of 9/11 and its aftermath. In its tightly controlled depiction of collective sorrow…it becomes almost unbearably moving.” — Daily Telegraph (London)
“Playwright Deborah Brevoort has a gift for high poetry and her descriptions of the day when death came raining down on Scotland are impressively moving…endowed with character, poetry and a core of touching emotion…” — Time Out London
“…gives powerful voice to a disturbingly contemporary anguish: how to respond to suffer-ing caused by a terrorist attack…the play has the power to move an audience to new hope in a world witnessing continual acts of revenge and hatred.” — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
“This finely honed play has the formal beauty of a Greek tragedy. The result is a play where not a minute is wasted in verbiage—where you are gripped from the opening moment and not released until the end.” —Green Left Weekly (Australia)
About the Author
Deborah Brevoort is the author of numerous plays, musicals and operas. She is best known for THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE, which is currently being produced all over the U.S. and internationally, after winning the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting competition and the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays award. It has been translated into seven languages and has had over 300 productions. Other plays include: BLUE MOON OVER MEMPHIS, a Noh drama about Elvis Presley, published by Applause Books in the “Best American Short Plays” and produced by Theatre Nohgaku; THE COMFORT YEARS, about military spouses during the surge of Iraq, commissioned and produced by Virginia Stage; THE POETRY OF PIZZA, a cross-cultural comedy about love, produced by Purple Rose, Mixed Blood, Centenary Stage, Cal Rep, Virginia Stage and others; THE BLUE-SKY BOYS, about NASA’s Apollo engineers; written with an EST/Sloan commission and produced at Barter Theatre; and INTO THE FIRE and SIGNS OF LIFE, both published by Samuel French. Her play THE VELVET WEAPON, a back stage farce about democracy, was written with a grant from CEC Arts Link grant and a NJ Playwriting Fellowship. It also won the Trustus Theatre’s national playwriting contest. Deborah is a two-time winner of the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre, for KING ISLAND CHRISTMAS, based on the Alaskan children’s book, with composer David Friedman, and COYOTE GOES SALMON FISHING, with Scott Richards. CROSSING OVER, her Amish Hip Hop musical, written with Stephanie Salzman, was chosen for ASCAP’s inaugural festival of new musicals at the Lied Center. She has written the librettos for three operas: “Embedded,” based on Edgar Allan Poe stories, with Patrick Soluri, commissioned by American Lyric Theater (world premiere at the Fargo Moorhead Opera); “Steal a Pencil for Me,” based on the book of the same title with Gerald Cohen, and a new adaptation of “Die Fledermaus” for the Anchorage Opera. Virginia Stage commissioned her play HOMESPUN, about Martha Washington, in 2013. Deborah was one of the original company members with Perseverance Theatre in Alaska. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders, dedicated to international theatre exchange. She is a member of the National Theatre Conference. www.DeborahBrevoort.com
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