The Mound Builders

Heading the group is Dr Howe, accompanied by his wife and daughter, and by a younger associate and his wife. They are all joined by Dr Howe's sister, a famous and jaded novelist, who is "drying out" after many years of dissipation in remote parts of the world

There is also an outsider, the acquisitive son of a local landowner, who wants the digging site to be turned into a commercialized tourist trap. Interweaving past and present through the use of slides, the action of the play probes into the lives - and conflicts - of these disparate people

Their story evokes resonances that illuminate what we are and will surely become, and which underscore the irony of our collective blindness to the disturbing lessons that a close study of the past must inevitably reveal

Winner of the Obie Award for distinguished playwriting

Successfully presented both on the stage by New York's Circle Repertory Company and on national television via the PBS "Theatre in America" series

"there is fabulous beauty in the play's writing" ~ NY Post

"The Mound Builders is among the five or ten most significantAmerican plays of the decade" ~ Village Voice