The third winner of the Yale Drama Series competition for emerging
playwrights-a haunting and provocative imagining of the reunion,
years later, of a Guantanamo detainee and the female interrogator
who tortured him It's been fifteen years since Guantanamo, fifteen
years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice.
Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he
believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and
demands that she donate half her liver as restitution for the
damage wrought during her interrogations. But Alice doesn't
remember Bashir; a PTSD pill trial she participated in while in the
army has left her without any memory of her time there. It is only
when her inquisitive fourteen-year-old daughter begins her own
investigation that the fragile peace of mind that Alice's
drug-induced oblivion enabled begins to falter. Frances Ya-Chu
Cowhig's powerful drama asks important and difficult questions: Is
guilt a necessary form of moral reckoning, or is it an obstacle to
be overcome? Will the price of our national political amnesia be
paid only by the next generation-the daughters and sons who were
never there? Upon awarding the prize, David Hare wrote, "We admired
the play because-although it was stylishly written, although the
governing metaphor and basic realism were held in a fine balance-it
also recalled the political urgency which had propelled a previous
generation of writers into the theatre in the first place."
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