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Drama |
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Full-length, 80-90 minutes
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4 females, 2 males |
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Locales suggested in different areas of the stage by objects such as an altar and a window.
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| When Thida arrives from Cambodia to join her brother and niece in the U.S., she refuses to speak and is completely blind, although her family's doctor cannot find any physical reason for her loss of sight. Thida suffers from a psychosomatic blindness developed by hundreds of Cambodian women after witnessing the atrocities collectively known as the "killing fields" in the chaos of Cambodia during the 1970s. As the family comes to understand her pain and her courage, Thida teaches her sophisticated American doctor the ways of the human heart. With humor, poetry, and gorgeous theatricality, East and West intersect in this story of survival and hope. |
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| "A beautifully done one-act drama about the place where horror and grief meet." |
| --Anita Gates, The New York Times |
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Eric Kocher Playwrights Award from the O'Neill Theater Center |
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Roger L. Stevens award from The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays |
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| Alexis Camins in Eyes of the Heart, National Asian American Theatre Company, INTAR, New York City (2004). Photo: Ching Gonzalez. |
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