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Over at LitHub, Rebecca Solnit has a lovely piece on how the model of the individual hero has failed us. This hero concept is where we get the “good guy with a gun” theory of gun violence prevention. Got a problem with guns? The answer is one more guy with a gun! Solnit writes: “Positive social change results mostly from …
This article is part of my research for my latest play, “Bystanders.” In it, two women are affected by the trauma of a mass shooting. I came across this fascinating article about how traumatic memories are formed, processed and stored. Memories of trauma are unique because of how brains and bodies respond to threat Jacek Debiec, University of Michigan Most …
I’m thinking of doing an adaptation featuring E.W. Hornung’s characters, Raffles the master jewel thief and Bunny Manders, his sidekick. The stories are clever and elegant, and there’s a sly critique of the class system built into each one. The Raffles stories were written at the same time as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, and were a kind …
In 1964 Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old woman, was raped and murdered in Queens, New York. A New York Times reporter, using police interviews, wrote that 37 people witnessed the attack and refused to call the police or intervene in any way. Thus the “bystander effect” became popular in pop culture, even making its way into social psychology. The New York …
My latest play, Bystanders, takes place in the aftermath of a horrific act of gun violence. It’s a two-hander exploring an intimate story dealing with guns in America. This is a tough topic that was not consciously on my radar. The play presented itself to me almost completely fully-formed, with a number of clear reversals inside its tight, 75-minute, real-time …