cover image by Candace Cole
Darwin and Jo Smith, and their seventeen year-old son Ronnie, seem to be the
typical Middle American conservative family. Darwin works as a systems analyst.
Jo teaches community college. Ronnie is a high school baseball standout with big
league aspirations.
One night before dinner, they are paid a surprise visit from
Commander Abraham Lincoln of Central Security, who claims to have information
concerning their daughter Lucy, an American soldier. Lincoln claims that Lucy
was captured by the enemy in a foreign war and decapitated. But, thanks to the
top-secret Operation Hydra, military doctors have been able to save her life by
surgically re-attaching her head.
There are two problems: (1) The Smiths don’t have a daughter. (2)
Somebody got the wrong head.
HOME FRONT, from the author of THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TULSA
LOVECHILD, is a five-character, one-set contemporary play that explores, through
a combination of intense drama and surreal dark comedy, the personal and social
consequences of war.
3 M, 2 F
I S B N 0-88145-309-9, $12.95