Plays
After years of taking care of her emotionally abusive mother, Faith expects her mother’s death to offer release and a new sense of freedom. Instead, it sends her into a spiral of loneliness, long drives, and a search for fulfillment in fast food. Then Theo arrives. Quiet, thoughtful, with an unmaskable hunger that is at once attractive and intimidating, Theo and Faith find in each other hope that their wounds can be staunched. But the disappearance of a young girl causes Faith to question whether the life she has built with Theo is real and what she’ll do to protect it. Conjuring and reliving memories of the past three years, Faith sits alone on a small town playground trying to find answers to questions she never wanted to have to ask.
Trapped inside a mysterious maze of mirrors, three kids read the following spell written in golden letters on the walls: “To escape this maze of mirrors, You must learn to see you clearer. Tell your story to unearth, The true value of your worth.” As they begin to tell their stories, THE WISE WARRIOR, THE PRINCESS, and THE STRONG BOY recognize what connects them and start to realize what it will take to get out of the maze. Using the framework of fairy tales and metaphor, each kid begins the long process of healing after traumatic exploitation.