Grasses of a Thousand Colors

" ... if you are the least bit prudish, then Grasses of a Thousand Colors is not for you. Still, it would be a shame for anyone to miss such a thorough deployment of the powers of enchantment as is offered here" ~ NY Times

This disturbing and anomalously beautiful play explores the role of human beings in nature and the role of nature in human beings

As Shawn says, " ... sexuality is nature's most obvious footprint in the human soul"

The play's central character is a doctor who figures out how to re-jig the metabolism of animals

A discovery which has unexpected consequences

The play tells a story about the doctor, his wife, and his lovers

But it is also a story about our planet

REVIEWS

"weird, teasing and devastating astonishing it's never clear what's real and what's a nightmare a bewildering, labyrinthine fairy tale it's clear that Shawn is after something about the erosion of boundaries between human and animal, nature and society. The play is a feverish portrait of male egomania threatening to waste the planet" ~Time Out NY

" a nasty and erotic fairy tale that, no matter how bewitching it seems at moments, murmurs a cautionary whisper all the while - Something is very wrong in this world, it says, and life may not be any better when you wake upa lyrical, creepy and richly detailed (and, oh yes, pornographic) dreamscape ..." ~ NY Times