ALIJAH
By Kathryn Grant
WHEN: November 19, 7:30 PM
TICKETS: There is a $10 suggested donation/$5 for seniors and students.
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Alijah, approaching middle age without purpose or direction, joins a church. Through the church's central tenet of "the oneness of all creation" she finds the strength to get her life moving forward.
But when an intruder brutally attacks her to within an inch of her life, she is thrown into a new world of connection. As she plunges into the labyrinth of the criminal justice system, she discovers a population tucked away in the seedy backwaters of American society.
Alijah's descent is conveyed through a kaleidoscopic series of monologues through which we meet the street poet, Adoremus, his fifteen-year-old sister Serena, a judge, a uniform tailor living on death row and a social worker trying to make sense of it all. This is not what Alijah expected when her church ushered her into a new world of human connection.
In Hebrew, Alijah means "one who travels to a higher place." Can Alijah accept her new reality without giving up on the promise her name implies?
On November 13th and 19th, HTC will feature Crib by Gino Diorio and Beautiful Boy by Eric Conger.
Hudson Theatre Works believes that the best way to build a professional theatre is to develop and produce new works.
PlayWorks is the first step in this process.
