Synopsis

We Are Not These Hands

We Are Not These Hands $10.99

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Sheila Callaghan

Published by Samuel French Inc

1 Male 2 Female

Ever since their school blew up, Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an illegal internet café in the hopes of one day being allowed in

They take particular interest in Leather, a skittish older man doing research in the café

Leather is a self-proclaimed "freelance scholar" from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret

Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth ... but what about Belly?

This play explores the effects of rampant capitalism on a country that is ill-prepared for it

REVIEWS

"Bold and engaging ... rich in detail and full of humor and pathos" ~ Oakland Tribune

"Swaggering eccentricity ... Callaghan takes a lavish mud bath in a broken language ... Ripe apocalyptic slang; at its best, it's racy and unrefined, the kind of stuff you might imagine kids in the back alleys of a decaying world might sling around" ~ The Washington Post

"... a comically engaging, subversively penetrating look at the human cost of unbridled capitalism on both sides of the river ... the anger of the play's social vision is partly concealed by its copious humor, emerging more forcefully after it's over ... bristles with bright, comic originality, particularly in depicting the limitations of its people" ~ San Francisco Chronicle

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