Silence Of God

A collection of five new plays by Catherine Filloux with introductions for each play by leading scholars who provide context and commentary on the range of her drama. LEMKINS HOUSE is a surreal portrait of Raphael Lemkin the man who coined the word genocide in THE BEAUTY INSIDE Filloux places the audience in the midst of a culture war after an attempted honor killing in EYES OF THE HEART a Cambodian refugee woman suffers from psychosomatic blindness SILENCE OF GOD depicts Americas complicity through the eyes of a journalist at the end of the Pol Pot regime MARY AND MYRA is a play about one woman Mary Todd Lincoln damned by her reputation saved by another Myra Bradwell who was damned into obscurity. Book Jacket.