Dottie's Last Hand

Minda Stephens
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
The Playwrights' Center
Cost: 
Free, no reservation necessary

Dottie Chaparral, a 95-year-old retired World War II era surgical nurse and card shark.  Presently, Dottie resides at the Pfister Brain Research Clinic and Assisted Living Facility in Señora-de-las-Flores-de-Mayo, Florida where she is awaiting a kidney transplant.   The facility is run by Dottie’s friend, Dr. Glen Pfister, who is a world-renown transplant surgeon and neurologist.  Dottie’s primary caregiver, Amber Dean, is a 23 year-old nurse’s aide and “reforming” career criminal.  This play asks the question:  Between crime and punishment and science, what kinds of organ transplants are waiting on the horizon of the human experience?