I’m thrilled to announce I have finished a brand new play – “Margo Asher Died Here” – of which I’m very proud and on which I have been working off-and-on for about a year.
“Margo Asher Died Here” is a two-hour, bittersweet drama about the controversy and chaos that ensues when two elderly residents of a nursing home engage in a sexual relationship.
Taking place in a rural, sprawling nursing home, “Margo Asher Died Here” tells the story of an old man and an old woman, both of whom have spent their lives in subjugation and inconsequence, who are discovered one evening to be having sex. As their relationship deepens, it quickly impacts those around the couple, creating a civil war among the nursing home’s staff and tearing asunder the romantic relationship between the old man’s son and the old woman’s daughter. Over time, the controversy grows greater and greater, the battle lines grow deeper and deeper, and the questions become ever starker… Are the old man and the old woman using sex to express some great burst of freedom and life – or is this something darker? Could it be rape – and if so, what role does the head nurse really play in all of this… and what might be her motivations?
“Margo Asher” is a moving, sometimes droll, sometimes bitter, more often reflective look at how human beings grapple with powerlessness, either those who are powerless themselves or who witness powerlessness in others.
You can check out the synopsis of the play and the first 30 pages!
